16980. Adulteration of   bnttex-.      V.    S.   v.   North   American   Creamery   Co.
Plea  of gnilty.     Fine,  $25 and costs.     (F.  & D.  No.  19712.     I.  S.  No.
22569-v.)
On May 25, 1926, the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota, act- 
ing upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of 
the United States for said district an information against the North American 
Creamery Co., a corporation, Paynesville, Minn., alleging shipment by said 
company in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about February 10, 1925, 
from the State of Minnesota into the State of Massachusetts, of a quantity of 
butter which was adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that a 
product which contained less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been 
substituted for butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 per cent 
by weight of milk fat, as prescribed by the act of March 4, 1923, which the 
article purported to be.
On November 23, 1929, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and 
costs.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.