22171. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 200 Boxes and 29 Boxes of Butter..
Product  adjudged  adulterated.     Released  under bond   to  be   re-- 
worked.    (F. & D. nos. 32374, 32383.    Sample nos. 59248-A, 68611-A.)
These cases involved shipments of butter which were low in milk fat.
On February 8 and February 13, 1934, the United States attorney for the 
Eastern District of Missouri, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agricul- 
ture, filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 229* 
boxes of butter at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped in- 
interstate commerce, on or about May 23 and May 25, 1933, by the Davis- 
Cleaver Produce Co., from Quincy, Ill., and charging adulteration in violation- 
of the Food and Drugs Act.
It was alleged in the libels 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.
On February 26, 1934, the Davis-Cleaver Produce Co. having appeared as 
claimant for the property and having admitted the allegations of the libels, 
decrees were entered ordering the product released to the claimant upon pay- 
ment of costs and the execution of bonds totaling $2,200, conditioned that it be- 
reworked so that it contain not less than 80 percent of milk fat.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.