26537. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. Northern Creamery Co    Plea of guilty*
Fine, $125.    (F. & D. no. 37016.    Sample nos. 40872-B, 40874-B.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of butter that was deficient in 
milk fat.
On April 29, 1936, the United States attorney for the District of Montana, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against the Northern Creamery Co., a corporation, Great 
Falls, Mont, alleging that on or about December 13, 1935, said defendant had 
shipped from the State of Montana into the State of Washington quantities 
of butter that was adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
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 defined by the act of Congress of March 4, 1923, which the article purported 
to be.
On October 16, 1936, a motion to dismiss filed by the defendant was over- 
ruled by the court without opinion. On October 27, 1936, a plea of guilty 
was entered on behalf of the defendant and the court imposed a fine of $125.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.