30713. Adulteration of  butter.     V.   S.  v.   15  Tubs  of  Butter.     Consent  decree
of condemnation.    Product ordered released under bond to be re-worked.
(F. & D. No. 45486.    Sample No. 26870-D.)
This product contained less than 80 percent of milk fat.
On May 29, 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 15 tubs of butter 
at New York, N. Y.; alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about May 8, 1939, from Paoli, Ind., by Turner's Creamery Co.; 
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 16, 1939, Turner's Creamery Co., claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered and the prod- 
uct was ordered released under t bond, conditioned that it be reworked, under 
the supervision of this Department, so that it, contain at least 80 percent of 
milk fat.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.