16165. Adulteration of butter.   U. S. v. Tripp Co-operative Creamery Co.   Plea
of guilty.   Fine, $25.    (F. D. C. No. 28148.    Sample No. 42178-K.) 
INFORMATION FILED :   March 16,1950, District of South Dakota, against the Tripp
Co-operative Creamery Co., a corporation, Tripp, S. Dak. 
ALLEGED VIOLATION : On or about February 14, 1940, the defendant gave to a 
firm at Chicago, Ill. engaged in the, business of shipping butter in interstate 
commerce, a guaranty to the effect that all food products sold or delivered 
to the holder of the guaranty would be neither adulterated nor misbranded 
under the law. On or about September 28, 1949, the defendant sold and deliv- 
ered under the guaranty at Tripp, S. Dak., a quantity of butter that was 
adulterated.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (b) (1), a valuable constituent, 
milk fat, had been in part omitted from the product; and, Section 402 (b) (2), 
a product containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been 
substituted for butter.
DISPOSITION : March 23, 1950. A plea of guilty having been entered, the 
defendant was fined $25.