21303. Adulteration of butter.    U.  S. v. 8 Tubs  of Butter.    Default decree
of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product given to a cbarltable 
Institution.     (F.  & D.  no.  30632.    Sample  no.  32515-A.)
This case involved a shipment of butter, samples of which were found to 
contain less than 80 percent by weight of milk fat, the standard for butter 
established by Congress.
On May 15, 1933, 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 a libel praying seizure and condemnation of eight tubs of butter 
at New York City, N.Y., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about 
May 2, 1933, by the Riceville Creamery, Riceville, Iowa, in a pool car from 
Cresco, Iowa, 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 percent by weight of milk fat had been substituted for 
butter, a product which should contain not less than 80 percent of milk fat as 
provided by act of March 4, 1923.
On July 14, 1933, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of 
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that 
the product be delivered to a charitable institution without expense to the 
United States.
M. L. "WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.