19678. Adulteration of butter.   IT. S. v. 8 Tubs of Butter.   Default decree of con-4
demmatlon and forfeiture.   Product delivered to cbarltable associations.
(F. & D. No. 27890.    I. ». No. 5384.    S. No. 5874.)
Samples of butter taken from the shipment involved in this action having 
been found to contain less than 80 per cent by weight of milk fat, the standard 
prescribed by Congress, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the 
United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.
On February 19, 1932, 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 eight tubs of butter at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about February 1, 1932, by Lee 
Gangeness Creamery Co., from Hettinger, N. Dak., 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 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 the act of March 4, 1923.
On March 14, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be delivered to charitable institutions.
HENRY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.