4102. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 14T Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree of
condemnation.   Product ordered released under bond for reworking into 
v  refined butter oil.     (F. D. C. No. 7915.    Sample No. 86990-E.)
On June 30,1942, the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illi- 
nois filed a libel against 147 63-pound tubs of butter at Chicago, Ill., alleging that 
the article had been shipped in interstate eomanerce bn or about June 16, 1942, by 
the O. G. Harp Poultry & Egg Co. from Shawnee, Okla.; and charging that it was 
adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, or decom- 
posed substance. The article was labeled in part: "Creamery Butter The Peter 
Fox Sons Co. Distributors Chicago, Ill." 
On September 4, 1942, the Peter Fox Sons Co., claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment 
of condemnation was entered and the product was ordered released under bond 
for reworking into refined butter oil under the supervision of a representative of 
the Food and Drug Administration.