14227. Adulteration of butter.     U. S. v. 8 Cubes, et al., of Butter.     Consent
decree  of condemnation and  forfeiture.     Product  released  under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 20914.    I. S. No. 10652-x.     S. No. W-1902.)
On February 17, 1926, 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 seizure 
and condemnation of 26 cubes of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by Swift & Co., from Weiser,
' Idaho, January 29, 1926, and transported from 
the State of Idaho into the State of California, and charging adulteration in 
violation of the food and drugs act.      . 
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Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance deficient in butterfat had been substituted wholly or in part for 
said article, and for the further reason that a valuable constituent, namely, 
butterfat, had been in part abstracted. 
On March 2, 1926, Swift & Co. having appeared as claimant for the prop- 
erty and having 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 $796, 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.