36760. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. O Tubs of Butter. Consent decree 
of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.     Product   released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 24013     I. S. No. 020826.    S   No. 2233.)
On August 6, 1929. the United States attorney tor the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for ?aid district a libel praying seizure 
and  condemnation   of  9  tubs  of butter,  remaining  in  the  original  tubs at
Chicago, Ill. alleging that the article had been shipped by the A  Barid (Baird) 
Co., from Lohrville, Iowa, July 27. 1929, and transported trora the State of 
Iowa into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of tlie 
f food and drugs act.
]     It was alleged in the libel that the at tide was adulterated in that excessive
( water had been mixed and packed therewitli 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 said
article, in that a valuable constituent, butterfat, had been in part abstracted
; from the article, and in that it contained less- than 80 per cent of butterfat.
On August 27, 1929, the  Great  Atlantic &  Pacific Tea  Co.,  Chicago,   III.,
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 claim-
; ant upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000,
conditioned  in  part  that  it  be  reprocessed,  under   the   supervision  of  this
department, so that it contain not less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
AKTHT'R M. HYDE, Sec?-ctai y of Agriculture.