17342. Adulteration of butter.    V. S. v. 10 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree 
of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product  released. ?^?i??? Wn^-
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On or about March 20, 1930, 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 10 tubs of butter, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
Swift & Co., from Creston, Iowa, March 10, 1930, and transported from the 
State of Iowa 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 a sub- 
stance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been 
substituted in part for the said article. Adulteration was alleged for the fur- 
ther reason that the article was deficient in butterfat, in that it contained less 
than 80 per cent of butterfat.
On April 30. 1930, the G. H. Hammond Co., 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 
payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned 
in part that it be reworked under the supervision of this department.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretarj/ of Agriculture.