17372. Adulteration of butter.    IT. S. v. 23 Boxes of Butter.    Consent decree 
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.    Product   released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 24846.    I. S. No. 019323.    S. No. 2926.)
On or about February 21, 1930, the United States attorney for the Western 
District of Washington, 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 23 boxes of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Auburn, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Clark Fork Creamery Co., Clarks Fork (Clark Fork) Idaho, about Feb- 
ruary 12, 1930, and transported from the State of Idaho into the State of Wash- 
ington, 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 for butter.
On March 10, 1930, the Auburn Dairy Products (Inc.), Auburn, Wash., 
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 costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $200, condi- 
tioned in part that it be made to conform with the Federal food and drugs act, 
under the supervision of this department.
ABTHUB M. HTDE, Secretary of Agriculture.