21315. Adulteration and Misbranding of butter. IT. S. v. 13 Tabs of Batter. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- leased under bond to be re-worked. (F. & D. no. 30726. Sample no. 40638-A.) This case involved a shipment of butter which contained less than 80 percent of milk fat and which was not labeled with a statement of the quantity of the contents. On June 20, 1933, the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 13 tubs of butter at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on June 9, 1933, by Dunlap Creamery Co., from Dunlap, Iowa, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act as amended. 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 Congress of March 4, 1923. Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was food in package form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package. On June 20, 1933, the Peter Fox Sons Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and 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 claimant to be reworked, upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, condi- tioned that it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the Federal Food and Drugs Act and all other laws. M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.