18627. Adulteration of butter.    V. S. v. 29 Tubs, et al., of Butter.     Consent
decrees of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond. (F. & D. Nos. 26768, 26770. I. S. Nos. 24722, 24745. S. Noa. 4754, 
4861.)
Samples of butter from the shipments herein described having been found to 
contain less than 80 per cent of milk fat, the standard provided by Congress, 
the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney 
' for the Northern District of Illinois.
On or about May 28 and June 9, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid libels praying 
seizure and condemnation of 142 tubs of butter, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped 
in part by the Des Moines Cooperative Dairy on May 38, 1931, and in part 
by the Des Moines Cooperative Dairy Market Association on May 27, 1931, 
from Des Moines, Iowa, and had been transported from the State of Iowa 
into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of the food 
and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance deficient in butterfat had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been 
substituted in part for the said article. Adulteration was alleged for the 
further reason that the article was deficient in butterfat, in that it contained 
less than 80 per cent of butterfat.
On June 5 and June 10, 1931, the Des Moines Cooperative Dairy Marketing 
Association, claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libels and having 
consented to the entry of decrees, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture 
were entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to
the said claimant to be reworked under the supervision of this department, 
upon payment of costs and the execution of bonds totaling $2,000, conditioned 
in part that it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the 
Federal food and drugs act and other existing laws.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.