20226. Adulteration of butter.    U.S. v. 45 Tubs of Butter.    Consent decree 
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.   Product   released   under   bond.
(P. & D. no. 28746.    Sample no. 8541-A.)
This action involved the interstate shipment of a quantity of butter, samples 
of which were found to contain less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat, 
the standard prescribed by Congress.
On August 12, 1932, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel 
praying seizure and condemnation of 45 tubs of butter, remaining in the orig- 
inal unbroken packages at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce on or about August 8, 1932, by Sebeka Coop- 
erative Creamery, from Sebeka, Minn., to Philadelphia, Pa., 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 prod- 
uct containing less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat had been sub- 
stituted for butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 percent 
of milk fat.
On August 15, 1932, William Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., having 
appeared as claimant for the property, judgment of condemnation and for- 
feiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be de- 
livered to the said claimant for reconditioning under the supervision of this 
Department, upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum 
of $650, conditioned in part that it should not be sold or disposed of contrary 
to the laws of the United States or any State, Territory, District, or insular 
possession.
R. G. TUGWELL, Actmg Secretary of Agriculture.