20721. Adulteration of butter.    U. S. v. 7 Cubes of Butter.    Default decree
of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product delivered to charitable 
organization.     (F.  &  D.  no.  29668.    Sample  no.   17387-A.)
This case involved an interstate shipment of butter, samples of which were 
found to contain less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat, the standard for 
butter prescribed by Congress.
On December 5, 1932, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 
7 cubes of butter, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Los Angeles, 
Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or 
about November 26, 1932, by Swift & Co., from Durango, Colo., to Los Angeles, 
Calif., 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 percent of milk fat had been substituted wholly or in 
part for butter.
On January 13, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be delivered to a charitable organization.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.