20526. Adulteration of  butter.    U.   S.   v.   Thirty-five   10-Pound   Cartons  of
Butter. Decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- 
leased under bond to be reworked. (F. & D. no. 28323. Sample no. 
8120-A.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of a quantity of butter, samples 
of which were found to contain less than 80 percent of milk fat, the standard 
for butter prescribed by Congress.
On May 5, 1932, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Penn- 
sylvania, 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 thirty-five 10-pound cartons of butter, remaining 
in the original u:broken packages at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce, on or about April 29, 1932, by 
S. H. Grinstead Co., from Lebanon, Ky., to Philadelphia, Pa., 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 by weight of milk fat had been substituted for 
butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On May 7,1932, the Kingan Provision Co., Philadelphia, Pa., having appeared 
as claimant for the property, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture 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 $100, conditioned in part that it be reworked under the supervision of 
this Department, and that it should not be sold or disposed of in violation 
of the Federal Food and Drugs Act, and all other laws.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.