24204. Adulteration and misbranding of butter.    U. S. v. "Wilmer B. Scott.
Plea of guilty.    Fine, $25.     (F. & D. no. 32187.    Sample no. 54368-A.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of butter that was deficient in 
milk fat and which failed to bear on the packages a statement of the quantity 
of the contents.
On July 18, 1934, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against Wilmer E. Scott, Philadelphia, Pa., alleging 
shipment by said defendant in violation of the Food and Drugs Act as amended, 
on or about December 13, 1933, from the State of Pennsylvania into the State 
of Maryland of a quantity of butter which was adulterated and misbranded.
The article was alleged to be 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 pre- 
scribed by the act of March 4, 1923, which the article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was food in package 
form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously 
marked on the outside of the package.
On March 29, 1935, the defendant entered a plea of guilty and the court 
imposed a fine of $25.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.