11826. Adulteration of butter. U. S. v. 78 Tubs of Butter. Consent decree of condemuatioii and forfeiture. Product l-eleased undei* bond. (F. & D. No. 17640. I. S. No. 450-v. S. No. E-4439.) On July 11, 1923, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure and condemnation of 78 tubs of butter, consigned by the New Haven Creamery Co., Osage, Iowa, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at New York. N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped from Stacyville, Iowa, on or about June 19, 1923, and transported from the State of Iowa into the State of New Y"ork, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a substance deficient in butterfat and containing excessive moisture had been mixed and packed with and substituted in whole or in part for butter, which the said article purported to be. Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that a valuable constituent of the article, butterfat, had been in whole or in part abstracted. On August 7, 1923, the Minnesota Cooperative Creameries Assoc, Inc., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and 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 claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,872, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be shipped to the factory and reworked and reprocessed under the supervision ?f this department. HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.