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OLEOMARGARINE, ADULTERATED BUTTER, ETC.
marking, branding, identification, and regulation of the
exportation and importation of adulterated butter.
Refined butter, manufactured from salt, glucose, and
imported low-grade or “grease” butter, is held subject to
tax as adulterated butter. (T. D. 557.)
Forwarding samp.es for analysis. (T. D. 1587.)
No assessment should be recommended on the basis of a
single sample unless there is other evidence. (T. D.
1539.)
Intent not necessary. (Lawrence v. Seyburn, 202 Fed.,
913; T. D. 1851.)
Decision of Comniissioner that.certain substance or com-
pound constitutes adulterated butter conclusive where there
has been hearing and arbitrary conduct in legal sense not
complained of. (New York Butter Packing Co. v. Edwards,
2566 Fed. 964; T. D. 2803.) (But see Lynch o. Tilden
Produce Co., 265 U. 8., 315; T. D. 3605 and IT. D. 3631.)
Decision of Commissioner is conclusive, where no un-
fairness or irregularity charged. (Id.)
Butter which contains more than 16 per cent moisture
does not make it “ adulterated ” within the meaning of sec-
tion 4 of the act of May 9, 1902, as prescribed by section 101,
subdivisions (b) and (¢), Regulations No. 9 (revised 1923).
Commissioner not authorized by section 20 of the act of
August 2, 1886, to make regulations establishing what shall
be deemed to constitute excessive moisture or the absorption
of abnormal quantities of water, milk, or cream. (Lynch ».
Tilden Produce Co., 265 U. S., 315; T. D. 3605.)
Instructions as to effect of decision in the case of Lynch v.
Tilden Produce Co. (IT. D. 3631.)
See citations under section 6. act of August 2. 1886.
(Sec. 543, U. 8S. C.)
Butter manufactured from sour cream, the acidity of
which has been reduced by the use of lime water before
churning, is not adulterated butter within the meaning of
section 4 of the act of May 9, 1902 (32 Stat., 193) ; however,
manufacturers who produce butter from filthy, decomposed,
or putrid substances, or who add to their product any
deleterious ingredient, are subject to prosecution under the
act of June 30, 1906 (34 Stat. 768), commonly known as
the Food and Drugs Act. (33 Ov. Atty. Gen, 10: T. D.
3213.)
578 [See sec. 5, act of May 9, 1902. (Sec. 579, U. S. C.)]
579 Sxc. 5. [Act of May 9, 1902 (32 Stat., 196).] All parts
Inspection of of an act providing for an inspection of meats for ex-
renovated butter. i XT, . d
portation, approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundre
and ninety, and of an act to provide for the inspection of
live cattle, hogs, and the carcasses and products thereof
which are the subjects of interstate commerce, approved
March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and of
amendment thereto approved March second, eighteen
hundred and ninety-five, which are applicable to the sub-
jects and purposes described in this section shall apply to
process or renovated butter. And the Secretary of Agri-
culture is hereby authorized and required to cause a rigid
sanitary inspection to be made, at such times as he may
deem proper or necessary, of all factories and storehouses
where process or renovated butter is manufactured,
packed, or prepared for market, and of the products
thereof and materials going into the manufacture of the