11954. Adulteration of butter. TJ. S. v. 92 Cubes of Butter. Consent de cree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 17623. I. S. No. 8671-v. S. No. W-1392.) On July 3, 1923, the United States attorney for the Northern District of California, 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 92 cubes of butter, at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Bradner Co., from Seattle, Wash., June 26, 1923, and transported from the State of Washington into the State of California, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that excessive moisture had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, for the further reason that a product deficient in butterfat had been substituted wholly or in part for the said article, and for the further reason that a valuable constituent, fyutterfat, had been wholly or in part abstracted from the said article. On July 17, 1923, the Makins Produce Co. having appeared as claimant for the property and consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of con- demnation 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 $3,000, in con- formity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be made to conform with the law under the supervision of this department. C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.