16380. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 33 Cubes of Butter.    Consent decree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product  released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 23606.    I. S. No. 05964.    S. No. 1801.)
On March 9, 1929, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 22 cubes of butter, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Marion Creamery & Produce Co., Portland, Oreg., March 2, 1929, and 
transported from the State of Oregon into the State of California, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a product 
containing less than 80 per cent of milk fat had been substituted wholly or in 
part for butter.
On March 20, 1929, Alfred Monotti, San Francisco, Calif., having appeared 
as claimant for the property and having consented to the entry of a decree, 
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by 
the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon payment of 
costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned in part that 
it be made to conform to and with the Federal food and drugs act under the 
supervision of this department.
ARTHUR M. HYDE,* Secretary of AgrimiMure.