21260. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 12 Cubes of Butter.    Consent decree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product  released  under bond 
to toe reworked.     (F. & D. no. 30629.    Sample no. 30775-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of a quantity of butter, samples of 
which were found to contain less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat, the 
standard prescribed by Congress.
On May 29, 1933, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 12 cubes of butter at 
Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about May 23, 
1933, from Conrad, Mont., having been consigned by the Conrad Creamery Co., 
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 as 
provided by the act of March 4, 1923.
On June 2, 1933, the Conrad Creamery, claimant, having consented to the 
entry of a decree, 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 $360, condi- 
tioned in part that it should not be sold or disposed of contrary to the provisions 
of the Food and Drugs Act, and that it be reworked under the supervision of 
this Department.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.