26080. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 9 Cases, 13 Cases, and 7 Cases of Butter.
Decree  of condemnation.     Product released under bond.     (F.  & D. no.
87677.    Sample no. 46950-B.)
This case involved shipment of butter that was deficient in milk fat.
On March 16, 1936, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 29 cases of butter at 
San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about March 13, 1936, by the Interstate Creamery, from Port- 
land, Oreg., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. 
The article was labeled in part: (Prints) "Red Ribbon Pasteurized Fancy 
Creamery Butter * * * Manufactured for Leslie Company, Ltd., San Fran- 
cisco, Calif."
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 prod- 
uct that should contain not less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On March 20, 1936, the Purity Stores, Ltd., having appeared as claimant, 
Judgment of condemnation was entered and it was ordered that the product be 
released under bond conditioned that it be brought up to legal standard.
W. R. GREGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.