18759. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. 10 Tubs of Butter. Default decree 
of condemnation, forfeiture, and destrnctlon. (F. & D. No. 26765. 
I. S. No. 30510.    S. No. 4711.)
Samples of butter from the shipment on or about May 5, 1931, herein 
described having been found to contain less than 80 per cent of milk fat, the 
standard provided by Congress, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the 
matter to the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
On May 8, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of the 
United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and condemna- 
tion of 10 tubs of butter, remaining in the original Unbroken packages at 
Lowell, Mass., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Trout Brook 
Creamery Co., from Concord, Vt., and had been transported from the State of 
Vermont into the State of Massachusetts, and charging adulteration in violation 
of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the Hbel that the article was adulterated in that a product 
containing less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat had been substituted for
butter, which said article purported to be, the act of Congress approved March 
4, 1923, providing that butter contain not less than 80 per cent by weight of 
milk fat
On June 1, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of 
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that 
the three tubs of the product that had been seized be destroyed by the United 
States marshal.
ABTHUB M. HTDB, Secretary of Agriculture.