30691. Adulteration of butter.    V. S. v. 11 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree of
condemnation.    Product released under bond to be reworked.     (F. & D.
No. 45497.    Sample No. 26875-D.)
This product contained less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On June 12, 1939, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 11 tubs of butter at 
New York, N. Y.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about June 3, 1939, from Alta Vista, Iowa, by Alta Vista Farmers 
Mutual Creamery Association; 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.
On June 20,1939, Alta Vista Farmers Mutual Creamery Association, claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was
entered, and the product was ordered released under bond conditioned that it 
be reworked so that it contain at least 80 percent of milk. fat.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.