17879. Adulteration of butter.    U.  S.  v. Howard  Z. Johnson   (South  Shore
Creamery   Co.).    Plea   of  srullty.    Fine,   $25.     (F.   &.   D.   No.   25682. 
I. S. No. 03704.)
Samples of butter from the herein-described shipment having been found to 
contain less than the legal requirement of milk fat, namely, less than 80 per 
cent of milk fat, the Secretaisy of Agriculture reported the matter to the 
United States attorney for the District of South Dakota.
On November 22, 1930, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid an information against Howard, 
Z. Johnson, trading as the South Shore Creamery Co., Summit, S. Dak., alleg- 
ing shipment by said defendant, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or 
about June 21, 1929, from the State of South Dakota into the State of New 
York, 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 Congress of March 4, 1923, 
which the said article purported to be.
On December 10, 1930, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.