12472. Adulteration of  butter.    IT.   S.  v.  20  Tubs   of  Butter.     Consent  de¬
cree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.     Product   released   under 
bond.    (F. & D. No. 18825.*    I. S. No. 17954-v.    S. No. C-4424.)
On June 23, 1924, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, 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 20 tubs of butter, alleging that the article had 
been shipped by the Thorpe Dairy Co., from Thorpe, Wis., June 12, 1924, and 
transported from the State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, 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 
substance, to wit, excessive water, had been mixed and packed with the said 
article so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, 
for the further reason that a substance deficient in milk fat and high in 
moisture had been substituted wholly or in part for the said article, and for 
the further reason that a valuable constituent of said article, to wit, butterfat, 
had been in part abstracted therefrom.
On June 30, 1924, the H. C. Christians Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, 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 $1,000, 
in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that the product 
be reprocessed under the supervision of this department.
HOWARD M. GOEE, Secretary of Agriculture.