11877. Adulteration of butter. V. S. v. 127 Tubs of Butter. Consent de- 
cree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond to be reprocessed.     (F. & D. No.  17652.     I.  S.  No. 372-v.     S.  No.
E-4448.)
On July 16, 1923, the Ujrited 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 praying the seizure 
and condemnation of 127 tubs of butter, remaining unsold in the original un- 
broken packages at New York, N. Y., consigned by Hanska & Linden, from 
Hanska, Minn., alleging that the article had been shipped from Hanska, Minri., 
on or about June 19, 1923, and transported from the State of Minnesota into 
the State of New York, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a sub- 
stance deficient in butterfat and containing excessive moisture had been mixed 
and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its 
quality and strength and had been substituted in wThole or in part for the said 
article. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that a valuable con- 
stituent, butterfat, had been in whole or in part abstracted.
On August 7, 1923, the Minnesota Cooperative Creameries Assoc, Inc., claim- 
ant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and consented to the entry of a 
decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon 
payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the 
sum of $3,048, in conformity "with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that 
it be shipped to the factory and reworked and reprocessed to the satisfaction 
of this department.
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.