20459. Adulteration of butter.    U.  S.  v. 27 Cubes  of Butter.    Consent  de¬
cree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.    Product   released   under 
bond.    (F. & D. no. 29223.    Sample no. 25245-A.)
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 October 15, 1932, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 27 cubes of butter, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce on or about September 16, 1932, by Nelson- 
Ricks Creamery from Rexburg, Idaho, to San Francisco, Calif., 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 percent of butterfat had been substituted for the said 
article.
On October 24, 1932, the Nelson-Ricks Creamery Co., Rexburg, Idaho, claimant, 
having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and for- 
feiture 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 $400, conditioned in part that it should not be sold or 
disposed of contrary to the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act, and that it 
be made to conform to the law under the supervision of this Department.
R. G. TTXGWEIX, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.