9118. Adulteration and Misbranding of butter.    V. S.     * " *     *    v. 4 Tubs of
Butter. Product ordered released on bond. (F. & D. No. 13879. 
I. S. No. 9156-t.    S. No. E-2888.)
On November 22, 1920, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Georgia, 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 4 tubs of butter, remaining unsold in the original unopened 
package's at Savannah, Ga., alleging that the "article' had been shipped by the 
Ferris North Stern Co., Baltimore, Md., on or about October 15, 1920., and trans- 
ported from the State of Maryland into the. State of Georgia, and charging 
adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that 
water and salt had been mixed and packed with, and substituted wholly or in 
part for, the article, and for the further reason that the article was mixed and 
packed in a manner whereby damage and inferiority were concealed.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was an imitation of, 
and offered for sale, under the distinctive name of, another article, to wit, 
butter.
On January 8, 1921, Emanuel A. Wanner, trading as Strieker Bros., having 
filed his claim to the property, and having executed a good and sufficient bond, 
in conformity with section 10. of the act, it was. ordered by the court that the 
United States marshal surrender the product to said claimant so that the same 
could be red"worked by the claimant, upon-.his stipulation that no part of the 
butter should be shipped for sale or offered for sale until the same had been 
re-worked to a condition in keeping with the terms and provisions of the Food 
and Drugs Act.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.