20292. Adulteration  and  Misbranding of  butter.     U.S.  v. Farmers  Equity
Cooperative  Creamery Association.     Plea of guilty.     Fine, $100.
(F. & D. no. 28070.    I.S. no. 30561.)
This action was based on the interstate shipment of a quantity of butter, 
samples of which were found to contain less than 80 percent by weight of milk 
fat, the standard prescribed by Congress.
On July 1, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of Colorado, act- 
ing 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 Farm- 
ers Equity Cooperative Creamery Association, a corporation, Denver, Colo., 
alleging shipment by said company, trading under the name of Farmers Equity 
Creamery, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 11, 1931, 
from the State of Colorado into the State of Massachusetts, of a quantity of 
butter that was adulterated and misbranded. The article was labeled in part: 
" Silverbrook A. & P. Butter * * * Packed For or By New England Butter 
"Wise. Springfield, Massachusetts."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that a 
product containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been substi- 
tuted for butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 percent by 
weight of milk fat as prescribed by the act of March 4, 1923.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement " Butter ", borne 
on the packages, was false and misleading, and for the further reason that the 
article was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser, 
since the product contained less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat, the stand- 
ard for butter prescribed by Congress.
On October 31, 1932, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.