14480. Adulteration of butter.    TJ. S. v. 50 Tubs of Butter.     Consent decree
of  condemnation and  forfeiture.     Product  released  under  bond*
(F. & D. No. 21181.    I. S. No. 14034-x.    S. No. C-5184.) : ;.'
On or about June 29, 1926, the United States attorney for the' Northern 
District of Illinois, 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 50 tubs of butter, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
the Heron Lake Creamery Co., Heron Lake, Minn., June 17, 1926, and trans- 
ported from the State of Minnesota into the State of Illinois, and charging adul- 
teration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that a 
substance, to wit, excessive water, had been mixed and packed therewith so as 
to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, for the 
further reason that a substance deficient in milk fat and high in moisture 
had been substituted wholly or in part for the said article, for the further 
reason that a valuable constituent of the article, butterfat, had been in part 
abstracted therefrom, and for the further reason that it contained less than 
80 per cent of butterfat.
On June 29, 1926, Coyne Bros., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel 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 the costs 
of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of. $1,000, json^tioned., 
in part that it be reprocessed under the supervision of this department so as 
to contain not less than 80 percent of butterfat.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.