19430. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. 6 Tubs of Butter. Decree of con- 
demnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond for re- 
working.     (F. & D. No. 27135.    I. S. No. 38845.    S. No. 5297.)
Samples of butter from the shipment herein described having been found to- 
ctintain 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 District  of Massachusetts.
On October 2, 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 six tubs of butter, remaining in the original and unbroken 
packages at Boston, Mass., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Berlin Cooperative Creamery Association, of New Richland, Minn., having been 
transported in interstate commerce from the State of Minnesota into the State 
of Massachusetts on or about September 24, 1931, and charging adulteration 
in -violation of the food and drugs, act as amended.
It was alleged in the libel 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, a product which should contain not less than 80 per cent of milk 
fat as provided by act of March 4, 1923.
On October 9, 1931, the Berlin Cooperative Creamery Association, New Rich- 
land, Minn., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel, 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 $150, conditioned in part that it should not 
be sold or disposed of contrary to the provisions of the food and drugs act 
or the laws of any State, Territory, district, or insular possession. It was 
further ordered by the court that the product be reworked so that it contain 
at least 80 per cent of butterfat.
AETHUE M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.