21835. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. Floydada Creamery, Inc.    Plea of
guilty.    Fine, $25.     (F. & D. no. 30275.    Sample nos. 4227-A, 12263-A.)
This case was based on interstate shipments of butter, samples of which were 
found to contain less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat, the standard for 
butter established by Congress.
On or about November 13, 1933, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court an information against the Floydada Creamery, Inc., Floydada, 
Tex., alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food and Drugs
Act, on or about August 3 and August 23, 1932, from the State of Texas 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 containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been substi- 
tuted for butter, a product which must contain not less than 80 percent by 
weight of milk fat as required by the act of Congress of March 4, 1923, which 
the article purported to be.
On December 15, 1933, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the defendant 
company, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.