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Show iVIERGER BUTTER IS " PLAGEOJjNDER BAH Cannot Be Marketed Without With-out Laying Offenders Open to Prosecution. So-called butter made by what is known as the merger process may not bemn.r-ktted bemn.r-ktted in Utah, and prosecutions will follow fol-low if reports that the product i.s belnp sold in some parts of the state shall prove to be true. This statement was made yesterday by Walter M. Hoyden, state dairy and food commissioner. "Information reaches this office," Commissioner Com-missioner Hoyden said yesterday, "that in some sections of Utah there has been an attempt to place i-pon the market the product of what Is known as the butler neri r. It is claimed that from one pound of butter and one pint of milk 1 wo pounds of butler is the result of treatment, by rhn device. "It is not butler unless it conforms t' the law, which requires that butter ihall contain at leat SO per cent buttnr fat and not more than 15 per cent moisture. The product of the me rarer contains seldom sel-dom more than 45 per cent butter fat and 55 per cent moisture and other ingredient ingre-dient s. "We can't interfere with private families fami-lies making- and using merger butter for themselves, but we do not indorse even that, because the product is not of proper food value. We can, however, prevent the sale of the product to the public as butter on the markets. "If. upon investigation, we find that the merger product Is being sold in maiket places and by other retailers as butter we shall take Immediate action In prosecution prose-cution under tho law. It Is simply an adulterated product and does not meet the state standard any more than watered wat-ered milk does." |