13408. Adulteration of butter.    TJ. S. v. Johnson Butter Co.    Plea of guilty.
Fine, $100 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 18477.    I. S. No. 1892-v.)
On May 15, 1925, the grand jurors of the United States within and for the 
District of Indiana, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
upon presentment by the United States attorney for said district, returned 
in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid an indict- 
ment against the Johnson Butter Co., a corporation, Terre Haute, Ind., charg- 
ing shipment by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on 
June 6, 1923, from the State of Indiana into the State of Massachusetts, 
of a quantity of butter which was adulterated.
Analyses by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 5 samples 
of the article showed, an average of 76.96 per cent of milk fat and 18.17 per 
cent of water.
Adulteration of the article was charged in the indictment for the reason 
that a product deficient in milk fat and containing an excessive amount of 
moisture had been substituted for butter, which the said article purported 
to be. Adulteration was alleged 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, which the said article 
purported to be.
On May 27, 1925, a plea of guilty to the indictment was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100 and costs.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture