3014.?Adulteration and misbranding of "Corn Chop."   U. S. v. Twenty-flve Sacks Corn
Chop.   Decree of condemnation.   Product ordered sold.   (F. & D. No. 4935.   S. No.?
1637.)
On December 31, 1912, the United States attorney for the Northern District of?
Florida, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and condemnation?
of 25 sacks, each containing approximately 90 pounds of "corn chop," remaining?
unsold in the original unbroken packages and in the possession of D. Kugleman & Co.,?
Pensacola, Fla., alleging that the product had been shipped by the Western Grain Co.,?
Kansas City, Mo., and transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Florida,?
and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.?
The product was labeled: "R. J. House and Co. Ninety Lbs. Pure Corn Chop.?
Kansas City, Mo." Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason?
that it was labeled as set forth above, denoting the contents of each of. the sacks,?
whereas, in fact, the sacks did not contain pure corn chop, but contained 4.27 per cent?
of sand, wherefore it was alleged in the libel that the product was adulterated within?
the meaning of section 7, paragraphs 1 and 2, of the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906,?
and also misbranded within the meaning of section 8, first general paragraph, of said?
act.
On May 26, 1913, no claimant having appeared for the property, a decree of condem??
nation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product?
should be sold by the United States marshal.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 6, 1914.