17513. Adulteration of butter.   U. S. v. 40 Cases   *   *    *.    (F. D. C. No. 31363.
Sample No. 53916-H.)
LIBEL FILED :   December 27,1946, Northern District of Ohio.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT :   On or about August 8, 1946, by Meadowlands Creameries,
Inc., from Chicago, Ill. 
PRODUCT:   40   32-pound cases of butter at Cleveland, Ohio.
LABEL, IN PART: (Case) "Club Specials Butter Distributed by Meadowlands 
Creameries, Inc., Chicago, Illinois."
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (b) (2), a product containing 
less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been substituted for butter; 
and, Section 402 (a)  (3), it consisted in part of a decomposed substance and
. was unfit for food.
DISPOSITION: On or about February 7, 1947, Henry Bruder, Cleveland, Ohio, 
claimant, having admitted the allegations contained in the libel, judgment 
of condemnation was entered and the court ordered that the product be re- 
leased under bond for conversion into butter oil, under the supervision of the 
Food and Drug Administration.