20715. Adulteratlon of butter.    U. S. v. Almond Cooperative Creamery Co.
Plea of guilty.    Fine, $25 and costs.     (F. & D. no. 27497.    I. S. nos. 
35120, 36424.)
This case was based on interstate shipments of quantities 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 March 19, 1932, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Wisconsin, 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 the Almond Cooperative Creamery Co., a corporation, Almond, Wis., 
alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, 
on or about June 9 and June 22, 1931, from the State of Wisconsin into the 
State of Illinois, of quantities of butter that was adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
a product which contained less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had 
been substituted 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, which 
the article purported to be.
On August 6, 1932, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.