17615. Adulteration of butter.   U. S. v. Farmers Cooperative Creamery.   Plea of
guilty.   Fine, $500.    (F. D. C. No. 30572.    Sample No. 91115-K.)
INFORMATION FILED : March 29,1951, District of Minnesota, against the Farmers 
Cooperative Creamery, a corporation, Jackson, Minn.
ALLEGED VIOLATION : On or about September 20, 1941, the defendant gave to 
a firm engaged in the business of shipping butter in interstate commerce, at 
Minneapolis, Minn., a guaranty to the effect that butter delivered by the de- 
fendant under the guaranty would not be adulterated. On or about October 
19, 1950, the defendant caused to be shipped and delivered to the holder of 
the guaranty, at Minneapolis, Minn., a number of boxes of butter that was 
adulterated.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), the product consisted 
in part of a filthy substance by reason of the presence of beetle heads, insect 
fragments, manure, setae, mites, rodent hairs, and sediment, and by reason 
of the use of filth-contaminated cream,m in the preparation of the product.
DISPOSITION : June 25, 1951. A plea of guilty having been entered, the court 
imposed a fine of $500.