6111. Adulteration and misbranding of poultry feed. TJ. S. * * * v. 11?
Sacks * * * of So-Called Poultry Feed. Consent decree of con??
demnation   and   forfeiture.    Product   ordered   released   on   bond.
(F. & D. No. 369-c.)
On October 23, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Kansas,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of the State Board of Health of Kansas,?
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the?
seizure and condemnation of 11 sacks, each containing 100 pounds of so-called?
poultry feed, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Leaven??
worth, Kans., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about October 6,?
1917, by the Rudy-Patrick Seed Co., a corporation, Kansas City, Mo., and?
transported from the State of Missouri into the State of Kansas, and charging?
adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The?
article was labeled in part, " Every Day Scratch Feed * * * Rudy-Patrick?
Seed Co., Kansas City, Mo."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
contained a very large per cent of screenings and weed seed, so packed and?
mixed with the other ingredients named on the label thereof as to reduce and?
affect its quality and strength.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the statements on?
the label were false and misleading and calculated to induce the purchaser to?
believe that the article was composed entirely of wheat, corn, kaflr corn, milo?
maize, barley or oats, cysco grit, and sunflower seed, whereas, in truth and in?
fact, it contained a very large per cent of screenings.
On November 8, 1917, the said Rudy-Patrick Seed Co., claimant, having?
consented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered,?
and it was ordered by the court that the product should be released to said?
claimant upon the payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution?
of a bond in the sum of $100, in conformity with section 10 of the act, condi??
tioned in part that the product should be relabeled so as to show the true?
nature of its contents.
R. A. PEARSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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