16261. Adulteration of butter.   U. S. v. Cass-Clay Cooperative Creamery Assn.
and Charles Ommodt.    Pleas of guilty.   Each defendant fined $100.
(F. D. C. No. 26703.   Sample No. 44715-K.)
INFORMATION FILED : On or about August 31,1949, District of Minnesota, against 
the Cass-Clay Cooperative Creamery Assn., a corporation, Moorhead, Minn., 
and Charles Ommoclt, general manager.
ALLEGED VIOLATION: On or about February 4, 1949, the defendants sold and 
delivered to a firm at Wadena, Minn., a quantity of butter that was adulterated ; 
and, at the same time, the defendants guaranteed that the butter was neither 
adulterated nor misbranded within the meaning of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act. The holder of the guaranty shipped the butter from the State 
of Minnesota into the State of California on or about February 10, 1949.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (b) (1), a valuable constituent 
of the food, milk fat, had been in part omitted; and, Section 402 (b) (2), a 
product containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been substi- 
tuted for butter.
DISPOSITION : November 14, 1949. Pleas of guilty having been entered, the 
court fined each defendant $100.
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