29104. Adulteration of butter and frozen eggs.    U. S. v. Hugh A. Pruitt (Pruitt
Produce Co.). Plea of guilty. Fine, $200 on first count. Probation 
for
" 1 year on remaining; counts. (F. & D. No. 40807. Sample Nos. 
27220-C, 37721-C, 34068-C, 34069-C, 43145-C, 43146-C, 43152-C, 43153-C, 
43155-C, 43156-C, 43157-C, 49503-C, 71043-C.)
The butter contained less than 80 percent of milk fat, and the eggs were 
decomposed.
On April 30, 1938, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against Hugh A. Pruitt, trading as Pruitt Produce 
Co., at Ardmore, Okla., alleging shipment by said defendant in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act. on various dates in the period from on or about May 2jJ, 
1937, to on or about November 1, 1937, from the State of Oklahoma into the 
States of Illinois, Missouri, New York, and Pennsylvania of quantities of 
butter and eggs which were adulterated.
The butter was alleged to be adulterated in that a product which contained 
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 prescribed 
by the act of March 4, 1923, which the article purported to be.
The eggs were alleged to be adulterated in that they consisted in whole 
or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On June 3, 1938, a plea of guilty having been entered by the defendant, the 
court imposed a fine of $200 on the first count of the information, and put him 
on probation for a period of 1 year on the remaining count.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture-