16684. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 117 Tubs of Butter.    Default deci
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D.  No.  166
I. S. No. 3755-v.    S. No. E-4080.)
On July 29, 1922, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of N 
York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Disti 
Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and cqndf 
nation of 117 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
Brooklyn, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by the New Lone 
Creamery 'Association, New London, Minn., on or about July 11, 1922, i 
transported from the State of Minnesota into the State of New York, j 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a s 
stance, excessive water, had been mixed and packed with and substituted wh<
or in part for the said article. Adulteration was alleged for the further 
reason that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit, butterfat, had been 
wholly or in part abstracted.
On August 3, 1929, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.