16504. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 24 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of  condemnation  and   forfeiture.    Product  released  under  bond.
(E\ & D. No. 24031.    I.  S. No. 010247.    S.  No. 2235.)
On August 6, 1929, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, 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 24 tubs of butter at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Bruce Creamery Co., from Bruce, S. Dak., July 27, 
1929, and transported from the State of South Dakota into the State of 
Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that excessive 
water had been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce and lower and inju- 
riously 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 constituent, to wit, butterfat, had been in part 
abstracted from the said article, and in that it contained less than 80 per cent 
of butterfat.
On September 6, 1929, Gallagher Bros., 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 pay- 
ment of costs and the execution of a good and sufficient bond, conditioned 
in part that it be reprocessed so as to remove the excess water and raisf 
the butterfat content to not less than 80 per cent.
AETHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.