NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2649.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
V. S.  -%\ 300  Sacks Bran.    Product released on bond.
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF BRAN.
On April 9, 1913, the United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 300 sacks, each 
containing 100 pounds of bran, remaining unsold in the original un- 
broken packages and in possession of the Champaign Seed Co., 
Champaign, Ill.,' alleging that the product had been transported in 
interstate commerce from the State of Missouri into the State of 
Illinois on or about March 11, 1913, and charging adulteration and 
misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The product 
was labeled: "100 Lbs. Pure Wheat Bran."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that it was not pure wheat bran, but contained 9.96 per cent of foreign 
matter, of which at least 9 per cent consisted of added screenings, 
which screenings had been mixed and packed with and were made a 
substitute for wheat bran so as to reduce and injuriously affect the 
strength of the product. Misbranding was alleged for the reason that 
the labels on the sacks, to wit, " 100 Lbs. Pure Wheat Bran," would 
deceive and mislead the purchaser thereof into the belief that the 
sacks contained pure wheat bran,.whereas, in truth and in fact, they 
contained a mixture of pure wheat bran with other substances as 
aforesaid, and said labels on the sacks were false and misleading.
On May 9, 1913, John Kelley, sr., Arthur Kelley, and John Kelley, 
ye., copartners, doing business as Kelley Milling Co., Kansas City, 
Mo., claimants, having executed bond in the sum of $300 in conform- 
ity with section 10 of the Act and having agreed to pay all of the 
costs of the action, it was ordered by the court that the product should 
be released to said claimants.
B. T. GALLOWAY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, September °26, 1913.
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