1675?. Adulteration and Misbranding of butter. IT. S. v. 23 Tubs of Butter. 
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- 
leased under bond.     (F. & D. No- 24066.    I. S. No. 021121.    S. No. 2255.)
On August 23. 3929. the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, 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 23 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at New York. N. Y.. alleging that the article had been shipped by the Northwest 
Dairy Forwarding Co.. from Duluth. Minn., on or about August 21. 3929. and 
transported from the State of Minnesota into the State of New York, and 
charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance deficient in butterfat hart been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce 
or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength, and "had been substituted 
wholly or in part for the said article.
Mibbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was offered for sale 
under the distinctive name of another article.
On September 5, 1929, the Rose Cooperative Creamery Co., Rose Corners. 
Minn., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having con- 
sented 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 and the execution of a bond in the sum 
of $600, conditioned in part that it be reworked and reprocessed so that it 
comply with the law. The claimant further agreed that the reconditioned 
n.oduet should contain at least 80 per cent of butterfat.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.