20681. Adulteration of butter. TJ. S. v. 27 Tubs of Butter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under bond to be reworked. (F. & D. no. 29816. Sample no. 11700-A.) This action involved an interstate shipment of butter, samples of which were found to contain less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat, the standard for butter prescribed by Congress. On January 5, 1933, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, 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 tubs of butter, remaining in the original un- broken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on December 21, 1932, by the Taylor Falls Creamery Co., from Taylor Falls, Minn., to New York, N. Y., 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 milk fat had been substituted for butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 percent of milk fat as provided by the act of March 4, 1923. Johnstone & HoUrock, New York, N. Y., filed a claim for the property as agents for the Taylor Falls Creamery Co., Taylor Falls, Minn., admitted the allegations of the libel, and consented -to the entry of a decree. On January 23, 1933, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the claimant upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $700, conditioned that it be reworked so that it comply with the law. R. G. TTTGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.