19834. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. Lake County Farmers Cooperative
Creamery  Association.     Plea   of  guilty.     Fine,  810.      (F.   &  D.   No.
27513.    I. S. No. 29235.)
This action was based on the interstate shipment of butter, samples of which 
were found to be deficient in milk fat, since they contained less than 80 per 
cent of milk fat, the standard provided by act of Congress.
On May 3, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid an information against the Lake 
County Farmers Cooperative Creamery Association, a corporation, Two Harbors, 
Minn., alleging shipment by said company, on or about June 9, 1931, in violation 
of the food and drugs act as amended, from the State of Minnesota into the 
State of New York, of a quantity of butter that was adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that a 
product deficient in milk fat, in that it contained 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 by weight of milk fat as defined and required by the act 
of March 4, 1923.
On May 4, 1932, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf of 
the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $10.
HENRY A. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture.