28905. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 14 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree of
condemnation.    Product released under bond for reworking.    (F. & D.
No. 42168.    Sample No. 8519-D.)
This product contained less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On March 21, 1938, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 14 tubs of butter at Chicago, 
111., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or 
about March 13, 1938, from Plainfield, Iowa, by the Plainfield Creamery 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 April 5, 1938, Dittmann & Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment 
of condemnation was entered and the product was ordered released under bond 
conditioned that it be reworked.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.