6394.  Adulteration  and  misbranding1 Of  cottonseed  meal.    IT.  S.    *    *    *    v.?
Producers' Cotton Oil Co., si corporation.    Plea of nolo contendere.
Fine, $25 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 8494.    I. S. No. 19951-m.)
On May 10, 1918, the United Stales attorney for the Southern District of?
Mississippi, acting upon a report by the Secretary oi Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an information against the?
Producers' Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, Yazoo City, Miss., alleging shipment?
by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or?
about November 27, 1916, from the State of Mississippi into the State of Michi??
gan, of a quantity of cottonseed meal which was adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of ^Chemistry of thia de??
partment showed the following results:
Cottonseed hulls  (per cent)?
39.
Ammonia (per cent)?
    5.62
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the information for?
the reason that a substance, to wit, cottonseed hulls, had been mixed and?
packed therewith, so as to lower or reduce and injuriously affect its quality and?
strength, and had been substituted in part for cottonseed meal, which the article?
purported to be; and for the further reason that a product containing less than?
7 per cent of ammonia, to wit, approximately 5.62 per cent of ammonia, had?
been substituted in whole or in part for 7 per cent ammonia cottonseed meal,?
which the article purported to be.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that it was food in?
package form, and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicu??
ously marked on the outside of the package.
On November 14, 1918, the defendant company entered a plea of nolo con??
tendere to the information, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
C. F. MAKVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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