28259. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. 29 Tubs and 51 Tubs of Butter.    Consent
decrees of condemnation.    Product released under bond for reworking;.
(F. & D. Nos. 49671, 40683.    Sample Nos. 56815-C, 57106-C, 57139-C.)
This product contained less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On October 26 and 29, 1937, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of New York, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 80 tubs of butter 
at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about October 12 and 13, 1937, from Baltimore, Md., by Chesa- 
peake Creameries, Inc., 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, a product 
which should contain not less than 80 percent of milk fat, as provided by the 
act of March 4, 1923.
On November 3 and 4, 1937, Chesapeake Creameries, Inc., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libels and having consented to the entry of 
decrees, judgments of condemnation were entered, and the product was ordered 
released under bond conditioned that it be reworked to contain at least 80 
percent of milk fat.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.