18613. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 24 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree
of  condemnation  and forfeiture.    Product  released under bond.
(F. & D. N<5. 26747.    I. S. No. 4639.    S. No. 4756.)
Samples of butter from the shipment herein described having been found to 
contain less than 80 per cent of milk fat, the standard provided by act of 
Congress, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States 
attorney for the Southern District of New York.
On May 25,1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of the 
United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and condem- 
nation of 24 tubs of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages at New 
York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped by the H. G. Christians 
?Co., Chicago, Ill., on or about May 18, 1931, and had been transported from the 
State of Illinois into the State of New York, 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 product 
containing less than 8ff per cent by weight of milk fat had been substituted for 
t>utter, a product which should contain not less than 80 per cent of milk fat as 
provided by law.
On May 27, 1931, the H. C. Christians Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and consented to the entry of a decree, and 
having agreed that the product be reconditioned so that it contain at least 
80 per cent of milk fat, 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 
$500, conditioned in part that it be reworked so that it comply with the law.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.