3900. Adulteration of butter.    TJ. S.  v. 17 Boxes of Butter.    Consent decree of
condemnation.    Product ordered released under bond to be reworked.
(F. D. C. No. 7770.    Sample No. 89688-E.)
On May 27, 1942, the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts 
filed a libel against 17 boxes of butter at Springfield, Mass., alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about May 15, 1942, 
by the Northwest Dairy Forwarding Co. from Duluth, Minn.; and charging 
that it was adulterated in that a product which contained less than 80 percent
by weight of milk fat had been substituted for butter.   The article was labeled
in part "Creamery Butter The Great A. & P. Tea Co New York - Distributors." 
v On July 27,1942, the Clotho Farmers Creamery of Long Prairie, Minn., claim- 
) ant, having admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was
entered and the product was ordered released under bond to be reworked under
the supervision of the Food and Drug Administration.