18598. Adulteration and Misbranding of butter. TJ. S. v. 11 Tubs of Butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond. (F. k D. No. 26759. I. S. No. 24714. , S. No. 4710.) Samples of butter from the shipment herein described having been found to contain less than 80 per cent of milk fat, the standard prescribed by Congress, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. On of about May 5, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District . Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and condemnation-of 11 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Chicago, Ill.,-alleging that the article had been shipped by the Alberta Cooperative Creamery Association, from Alberta, Minn., April 21, 1931, and had been transported from the State of Minnesota into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration. and misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act. j ? ! '--.;, It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated iu 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 further reason that the article contained less than 80 per cent of butterfat. Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article had been sold, shipped, and labeled butter, which was false and misleading in that the said article contained less than 80 per cent of milk fat. (This department has no record that the article was labeled butter, and made no misbranding recom- mendation.) On May 12,1931, Peter Fox Sons Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, judg- ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant to be reworked under the supervision of this department, upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned that it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to law. ABTHUE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.