15980. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 8 Cubes, et al., of Butter.    Consent
decrees of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond. (F. & D. Nos. 23075, 23078. I. S. Nos. 036, 037, 081. S. Nos. 1108, 
1109.)
On August 10 and August 20, 1928, respectively, the United States attorney 
for the Northern District of California, acting upon reports by the Secretary 
of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said dis^ 
trict libels praying seizure and condemnation of 76 cubes of butter, remaining in 
the original unbroken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the 
article had been shipped by the Cudahy Packing Co., from Portland, Ore., in 
part July 28, 1928, and in part August 1, 1928, and transported from the State 
of Oregon into the State of California, and charging adulteration in violation 
of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance deficient in butterfat had been substituted wholly or in part for the 
said article, and in that a valuable constituent, "namely, butterfat, had been in 
part abstracted.
On August 20, 1928, the Cudahy Packing Co., San Francisco, Calif., having 
appeared as claimant for the property and having consented to the entry of 
decrees, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon 
payment of costs, and the execution of bonds totaling $2,655, conditioned in 
part that it be made to conform with the law under the supervision of this 
department.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.