15923. Adulteration of butter.     TJ. S. v. 46 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of  condemnation   and   forfeiture.     Product   released   under   bond.
(F. & D. No. 22897.    I. S. No. 15990-x.    S. No. 936.)
On June 14, 1928, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure; and 
condemnation of 46 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Lineville 
Creamery Co., from Lineville, Iowa, June 12, 1928, and had been transported 
from the State of Iowa into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in 
violation of the food and drugs act.
It was1 alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance, to wit, excessive water, had been mixed and packed with the said 
article so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and 
strength, in that a substance deficient in milk fat and high in moisture had 
been substituted wholly or in part for the said article, in that a valuable con- 
stituent of the article, to wit, butterfat, had been in part abstracted therefrom, 
and in that the said article contained less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
On June 22, 1928, the Peter Fox Sons Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel 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 costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum 
of $1,000, conditioned in part that it be reprocessed to raise the butterfat con- 
tent to not less than 80 per cent.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.