21085. Adulteration  and   Misbranding of  butter.    V.   S. v.  Armour  &.   Co.
(Armour  Creamery Co.).    Plea of  guilty.    Fine, $10.     (F.  & D. no.
28200.    Sample no. 6604-A.)
This case was based on 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 20, 1932, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court an information against Armour & Co., a corporation trading 
as the Armour Creamery Co., at Springfield, Mo., alleging shipment by said 
company in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about April 19, 1932, 
from the State of Missouri into the State of Tennessee, of a quantity of 
butter which was adulterated and misbranded. The article was labeled in 
part: (Carton) "Spring Brook Brand Creamery Butter * * * Distributed 
by Armour Creameries, General Offices, Chicago."
It was alleged in the information 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 must contain not less than 80 percent 
by weight of milk fat, as prescribed by the act of March 4, 1923.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement, "Creamery 
Butter" on .the label, was false and misleading, and for the further reason 
that the article was labeled so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser, since 
it was not butter as defined by the act of March 4, 1923.
On April 3, 1933, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $10.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.