21836. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. Mount Ansel Cooperative Creamery.
Plea of guilty.    Fine, $50.     (F. & D. no. 30282.    Sample no. 14505-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 December 1, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
an information against the Mount Angel Cooperative Creamery, a corporation, 
Mount Angel, Oreg., alleging shipment by said company in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, on or about May 28 and May 31, 1932, from the State of 
Oregon into the State of California, of quantities of butter that was adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that a 
product deficient in milk fat, in that it contained 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 required .by the act of Congress 
of March 4, 1923, which the article purported to be.
On December 1, 1933, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the defendant 
company, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.