7007. Adulteration and misbranding- of butter. U. S. * * * v. 333 Tubs 
of Butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Prod- 
uct ordered released nndcr bond. (F. & D. No. 11066. I. S. Nos. 
7214-r, 7215-r.     S. No. C-1413.)
On August 12, 1919, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and 
condemnation of 333 tubs of butter, remaining unsold in the original unbroken 
packages at Chicago,'Ill,, alleging that the article had been shipped on or about 
July 21, 1919, by the R. E. Cobb Co., St. Paul, Minn., and transported from the 
State of Minnesota into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration and 
misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of th-e article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a sub- 
stance, to wit, excessive water, had been mixed and packed with the article so 
as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and that 
a substance deficient in milk fat and high in moisture had been substituted in 
part for butter, which the article purported to be. Adulteration was alleged 
for the further reason that a valuable constituent of said article of food, to 
wit, butter fat, had been in part abstracted from the article.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the said article 
was an imitation of, and was offered for sale under the distinctive name of, 
another article, to wit, butter.
On September 23, 1919, the Farmers Cooperative Dairy & Produce Co., hav- 
ing admitted the material allegations of the libel and having consented to a 
decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to said claimant upon the 
payment of the costs of the proceeding and the execution of a bond in the sum 
of $1,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that said 
article should be reprocessed under the supervision of this department in such 
a manner as to remove the excess water therefrom.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agricultwc.