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Cotton Oil Co., a corporation. Jr'lea OJ. feuitly. l^ktic, ^50 Jtutl cost.,.?
(F. & D. No. SC5-J.     I   S. No   '"^C-m )
On December 13, 1917, 1 be United States attorney for the Eastern District of?
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of AsriciMture, filed in tlie Dis??
trict Court of the United Plates for said district an information against the?
Roberts Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, with a place of business at Cairo, 111.,?
alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act,?
on or about October 24, 1916, from the State of Illinois into the State of?
Indiana, of a quantity of cottonseed meal which was adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed 6.91 per cent ammonia.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that?
a product which contained less than 7i per cent of ammonia had been substi??
tuted in whole or in part for prime 7? per cent ammonia cottonseed meal,?
which the article purported to be.
On April 3, 1918, the defendant company entered "a plea of guilty to the in??
formation, and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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