4767. Adulteration and misbranding of butter.    U.  S. v.  10 Boxes of Butter.
Consent decree .of condemnation.    Product ordered released under bond
for reworking.    (F. D. C. No. 9282.   Sample No. 448-F.)
In addition to being deficient in milk fat this product was also short-weight.
On or about December 31, 1942, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Illinois filed a libel against 10 boxes, each containing 50 1-pound 
prints, of butter at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about December 15, 1942, by the Farmers Cooperative 
Creamery Association from Protivin, Iowa; and charging that it was adulterated 
in that a product containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been 
substituted for butter. It was alleged to be misbranded in that it was food in 
package form and failed to bear a label containing an accurate statement of the 
quantity of the contents. The article was labeled in part: (Wrapper) "Fancy 
Dittmann's Best Creamery Butter 1 Lb. Net Dittmann & Company * * * 
Chicago, Ill."
On January 5,1943, Dittman & Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered and the product 
was ordered released under bond for reworking under the supervision of the 
Food and Drug Administration.
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} Nos. 4768 to 4772 report actions involving cheese, samples of which were 
found to be contaminated with one or more types of filth, such as rodent or human 
hairs, mites, rind rot, mold, and miscellaneous filth.