14301- Misbranding of butter. IT. S. v. 600 One-Pound Cartons of Butter. 
Product   adjudged   misbranded   and   ordered   released.     (F.   &   D.
No. 20977.    I. S. No. 639-x.    S. No. W-1852.)
On or about February 8, 1926, the United States attorney for the Southern 
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 pray- 
ing seizure and condemnation of 600 one-pound cartons of butter, remain- 
ing in the original unbroken packages at Los Angeles, Calif., consigned from 
Wilmington, Calif., to Honolulu, T. H., and returned to Los Angeles, Calif., 
alleging that the article had been shipped via the Los Angeles Steamship Co., 
from Wilmington, Calif., on or about January 16, 1926, and that it had been 
shipped in interstate commerce from the State of California into the Territory 
of Hawaii, and charging misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act 
as amended. The article was labeled in part: (Carton) "Pasteurized Clover 
Glen Brand Sweet Cream Butter * * * Net Weight 16 Oz. Distributed by 
E. L. Thomson Co., Inc., Los Angeles."
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the 
statement " Net Weight 16 Oz.," borne on the labels, was false and misleading 
and deceived and misled the purchaser, and for the further reason that it was  ; 
food in package form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and   \ 
conspicuously marked on the outside of the package, since the quantity stated 
was not correct.
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On April 1, 1926, the B. L. Thomson Co., Inc., Los Angeles, Calif., having 
appeared as claimant for the property, a decree was entered, adjudging the 
product misbranded, and it was ordered by the court that the said product 
be released to the claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings, 
and that the bond theretofore executed be exonerated. 
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W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.