13591. Adulteration and alleged misbranding of Butter. TJ. S. v. 21 Tub* 
of Butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product released under bond. (P. & D. No. 20256. I. S. No. 1202-x. 
S. No.  C-4774.)
On July 6, 1925, 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 21 tubs of butter, remaining unsold in the original pack- 
ages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Valley 
Dairy Products Co., from Appleton, Wis., June 30, 1925, and transported from 
the State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration 
and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that ex- 
cessive water 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 
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 valua- 
ble constituent of the article, to wit, butterfat, had been in part abstracted 
therefrom.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was food in package 
form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously 
marked on the outside of the package.
On July 15, 1925, Gallagher Bros., Chicago, Ill., claimants, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, 
judgment of the court was entered, finding the product adulterated and order- 
ing its condemnation and forfeiture, and it was further ordered by the court 
that the product be released to the said claimants upon payment of the costs 
of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, in con- 
formity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be reprocessed 
under the supervision of this department so that it contain not less than 80 
per cent of butterfat.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.