18017. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 10 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of   condemnation.    Product   released   under   bond.     (F.   &   D.   No.
25446.    I. S. No. 8831.    S. No. 3561.)
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 Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the 
United States attorney for the Western District of New York.
On October 30, 1930, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 10 tubs of butter at Buffalo, N. Y., consigned by the Land O'Lakes 
Creameries (Inc.), Duluth, Minn., alleging that the article had been shipped 
from Duluth, Minn., October 23, 1930, and had been transported from the State 
of Minnesota into the State of New York, and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a product 
containing less than 80 per cent of milk fat had been substituted for butter.
On October 31, 1930, the Land O'Lakes Creameries (Inc.), Duluth, Minn., 
having appeared as claimant for the property and having consented to the 
entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation was entered and it was ordered 
by the court that the product be released to the said claimant to be reworked 
and reconditioned under the supervision of this department, upon payment of 
costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $480, conditioned in part that 
it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the law.
ABTHUE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.