22299. Adulteration of  butter.     U.   S.  v.  Winthrop  Cooperative   Creamery
Association.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $25.     (F. & D. no. 30272.    Sample 
no. 31539-A.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of butter which contained less 
than 80 percent of milk fat.
On January 16, 1934, the United States attorney for the District of Minne- 
sota, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against the Winthrop Cooperative Creamery Association, 
a corporation, Winthrop, Minn., alleging shipment by said company in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about March 2, 1933, from the State of 
Minnesota into the State of New York, of a quantity of butter which 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 
substituted for butter, a product which must contain not less than 80 percent 
by weight of milk fat as defined and required by the act of Congress of March
4, 1923, which the article purported to be.
On January 16, 1934, 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.