13264. Adulteration   of   butter.     U.    S.   v.   Mutual   Creamery   Co.     Plea   of 
guilty.     Fine, $125.     (P. & D. No.  18763.    I.  S. Nos.  20029-v,  20032-v.)
On November 10, 1924, the United States attorney for the District of Idaho, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district an information against the Mutual 
Creamery Co., a corporation, trading at Lewiston, Idaho, alleging shipment 
by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, in two consignments, 
namely, on or about February 6 and February 15, 1924, respectively, from the 
State of Idaho into the State of Washington, of quantities of butter which was 
adulterated. The article was labeled in part: " Mutual Creamery Co. Seattle, 
Wash."
Analyses by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of four samples 
from the consignment of February 6, 1924, and five samples from the con- 
signment of February 15, 1924, showed that the said samples averaged 79.52 
per cent and 78.86 per cent of butterfat and .16.29 per cent and 16.77 per cent 
of moisture, respectively.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information 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 containing excessive moisture and deficient in milk fat 
had been substituted for butter, which the article purported to be, for the 
further reason that a product which contained less than 80 per cent by weight 
of milk fat had been substituted for butter, a product which should contain 
not less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat, as prescribed by the act of 
March 4, 1923, and for the further reason that a valuable' constituent of the 
article, to wit, milk fat, had been in part abstracted.
On April 2, 1925, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $125.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.