4123. Adulteration and misbranding of butter.     U.  S. v. Ill  Boxes of Butter,
Consent decree of condemnation. Product ordered released under bond 
for reworking- and relabeling.    (F. D. C. No. 8514.    Sample No. 1522-F.)
On September 10, 1942, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois filed a libel against Ill 50-pound boxes of butter at Chicago, Ill., al- 
leging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about 
August 18, 1942, by the Palace Dairy Co. from Prentice, Wis.; and charging 
that it was adulterated and misbranded.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that a valuable constituent, milk 
fat, had bees is whole or in part omitted or abstracted therefrom; and in that
a substance containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been sub- 
stituted in whole or in part for butter.    ,
It was alleged to be misbranded in that it was food in package form and failed 
to bear a label containing (1) the name and place of business of the manufac- 
turer, packer, or distributor; (2) an accurate statement of the quantity of, the 
contents in terms of weight ;and (3) the common or usual name of the article.
On September 24, 1942, Walter Englund, trading as Palace Dairy, claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was 
entered and the product was ordered released under bond for reworking and 
relabeling under the supervision of the Food and Drug Administration.
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