26568. Adulteration of  butter.    V.   S.  v.   84  Tubs   of  Butter.     Decree   of   con¬
demnation. Product ordered released under bond. (F. & D. no. 38142. 
Sample no. 7061-C.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of butter that was deficient in 
milk fat.
On August 3, 1936, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 84 tubs of butter 
at Boston, Mass., consigned on or about July 25, 1936, alleging that the article 
had been shipped in interstate commerce by the Farmers' Marketing Associa- 
tion, from Columbus, Ind., and charging adulteration 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, which 
the article purported to be, the act of Congress of March 4, 1923, providing 
that butter contain not less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On August 13, 1936, the Farmers' Marketing Association, claimant, having ad- 
mitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered 
and it was ordered that the product be released under bond, conditioned that 
it be reworked so that it contain at least 80 percent of milk fat.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.