24825. Adulteration of butter.     IT. S. v. Garst Bros. Dairy, Inc.     Plea of guilty.
Fine, $25 and costs.     (F. & D. no. 33934.    Sample no. 6777-B.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of butter that contained 
less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat.
On February 25, 1935, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against Garst Bros. Dairy, Inc., Roanoke, Va., 
alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, 
on or about July 1, 1934, from the State of Virginia into the State of New York 
of a quantity of butter which was adulterated.
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 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 July 1, 1935, a plea of guilty was entered on behalf of the defendant 
company and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
W. R. GEEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.