NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2633.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
U. S. v. 26 Tierces of Hotter.   Decree of condemnation by consent.   Product
released  on  bond.
ADULTERATION OF BUTTER.
On February 24,1913, the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 26 tierces of 
butter remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and in 
possession of the A. H. Bull Steamship Co., Pier 7, North River, 
New York, N. Y., alleging that the product had been delivered on or 
about February 20, 1913, by V. Lopez & Co., to said steamship com- 
pany for shipment from the State of New York to an insular posses- 
sion of the United States, to wit, Porto Rico, and charging adultera- 
tion in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The product was un- 
labeled except for stencil shipping directions.
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that it consisted in part of a filthy and decomposed animal sub- 
stance, to wit, rancid and moldy butter.
On May 10, 1913, the said V. Lopez & Co., a copartnership, having 
filed its claim for the product, and it having been reported by the 
Board of Food and Drug Inspection of the United States Department 
of Agriculture that of the butter contained in the 26 tierces a quan- 
tity amounting in all to 21 tierces was fit for reworking and the 
balance, namely, 5 tierces, were fit only- for technical purposes, and 
said Board having recommended that the said 5 tierces should be re- 
leased upon being denatured and marked " Mouldy grease: Not to be 
used for food purposes," judgment of condemnation and forfeiture 
was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product should 
be released to said claimants upon payment of all the costs of the 
proceedings and the execution of bond in the sum of $250, in cons 
formity with section 10 of the Act, and upon the conditions set forth 
above.
B. T. GALLOWAY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 25, 1913.
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