26082. Adulteration  and misbranding of butter.     V.  S. v.  40  Cases  of Butter.
Product released under bond.     (F. & D. no. 37679.    Sample no. 53052-B.)
This case involved a shipment of butter that was deficient in milk fat. 
On or about February 15, 1936, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of Florida, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed
in the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of forty 30-pound 
cases of butter at Jacksonville, Fla., alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce on or about February 10, 1936, by Jefferson Creameries 
[Jefferson Creamery, Inc.], from Americus, Ga., and charging adulteration and 
misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled 
in part: "Land O Sunshine Creamery Butter * * * Jefferson Creamery, 
Americus, Georgia."
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 of milk fat.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that it was labeled "Butter", 
which was false and misleading, since it contained less than 80 percent of 
milk fat.
On February 15, 1936, the Jefferson Creamery, Inc., having appeared as 
claimant for the product, judgment was entered ordering that the product be 
released under bond conditioned that it be brought up to the legal standard.
W. R. GREGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.