3469.?Adulteration  and misbranding of  bran.   U. S. v. 5 Bags of  Bran, More or Less.
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.   (F. & D. No. 5645.?
I. S. No. 9914-h.   S. No. C-12.)
On March 24, 1914, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky,?
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 5 bags of?
bran, more or less, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Glencoe,?
Ky., alleging that the product had been shipped on March 12, 1914, and transported?
from the State of Ohio into the State of Kentucky, and charging adulteration and?
misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration was alleged in the libel for the reason that the product purported to?
be bran contained screenings and corncob meal which had been substituted in part?
for the article, to wit, bran, which said screenings and corncob meal had been mixed?
and packed with and substituted for bran in such a manner as to reduce, lower, and
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injuriously affect its quality and strength. Misbranding was alleged for the reason?
that said 5 bags were invoiced and billed as bran, and said designation was false and?
misleading in that said food product was a mixture of bran, screenings, and corncob?
meal, which had been substituted in part for bran.
On May 5, 1914, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of con??
demnation and forfeiture was entered and it was ordered by the court that the product?
should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
D. F. HOUSTON, Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, September 28, 1914.