20819. Adulteration of  butter.     V.  S. v.  16  Cubes  of Butter.    Product  or- 
dered released under bond.     (F. & D. no. 29262.    Sample no. 14505-A.)
This case 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 October 25, 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 16 cubes of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce on or about May 31, 1932, by the Mount Angel 
Cooperative Creamery, from Portland, Oreg., 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 February 7, 1933, the Purity Stores, Ltd., San Francisco, Calif., having 
appeared as claimant for the property, judgment was entered finding that the 
allegations of the libel were true, and ordering that the product be released to 
the claimant upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of 
$300, conditioned that it be made to comply with the law under the supervision 
of this Department.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.