21841. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. 448 Pounds of Butter. Default de- 
cree of condemnation. Product delivered to welfare organiza- 
tions.     (F. & D. no. 31769.    Sample no. 41162-A.)
This case involved a shipment 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 November 17, 1933, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Iowa, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 448 pounds of butter at 
Dubuque, Iowa, alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about November 8, 1933, by the Tennyson Cooperative Creamery 
Co., from Potosi, Wis., 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 by weight of 
milk fat as prescribed by the act of Congress of March 4, 1923.
On December 8, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product 
be distributed to welfare organizations.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.