18818. Adulteration of butter.   U. S. v. Charles A. Whitford (Whitford Mer¬
cantile Co. and Nowata Creamery Co.).   Plea of guilty.   Fine, $50.
(F. D. C. No. 30586.    Sample No. 77908-K.)
INFORMATION FILED: May 13, 1952, Northern District of Oklahoma, against 
Charles A. Whitford, trading as the Whitford Mercantile Co. and the Nowata 
Creamery Co., at Nowata, Okla.
ALLEGED VIOLATION: On or about December 28, 1940, and July 10, 1949, the 
defendant, at Nowata, Okla., in the names of the Whitford Mercantile Co. and 
the Nowata Creamery Co., gave to a firm engaged in the business of shipping 
butter in interstate commerce, at Carthage, Mo., guaranties to the effect that 
butter delivered by the defendant under the guaranties would not be 
adulterated.
On or about August 30,1950, the defendant caused to be shipped from Nowata, 
Okla., to the holder of the guaranties at Carthage, Mo., a quantity of butter 
which was adulterated.
of the article, namely, milk'fat, had been in part omitted; and Section 402 (b)
(2), a product containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been
*   substituted for butter, which the article was represented to be.
DISPOSITION:   September 18, 1952.   A plea of guilty having been entered, the
court imposed a fine of $50. 
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