20326. Adulteration of butter.    U.S. v.  Gilbert T.  Gutbrle   (Aro  Creamery 
Co.).    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $25.     (F. & D. no. 28094.    I.S. no. 35257.)
This action was based on the interstate shipment of a quantity of butter, 
samples of which were found to contain less than 80 percent of milk fat, the 
standard prescribed by Congress.
On June 20, 1932, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Missouri, 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 Gilbert T. Guthrie, trading as Aro Creamery Co., St. Louis, Mo., alleging 
shipment by said defendant in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about 
July 29, 1931, from the State of Missouri into the State of Indiana, of a 
quantity of butter which was adulterated.
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 sub- 
stituted for butter, a product which must contain not less than 80 percent 
of milk fat as required by the act of March 4, 1923.
On October 27,1932, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
.and the court imposed a fine of $25.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.