9193. Adulteration and misbramlisig of cottonseed cake. U.S. * * * v. 
Imperial Cotto Sales Co., so Corporation. Plea of guilty, Fine, 
f 100 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 12350.     I. S. No. 7019-r.)
On August 6, 1920, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in. the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against the 
Imperial Cotto Sales Co., a corporation, Chicago, Ill., alleging shipment by 
said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about 
February 5, 1919, from the State of Mississippi, through the State of Illinois, 
into the State of Missouri, of a quantity of cottonseed cake which was adulterated 
and misbranded.    The article was invoiced as" Nutsize Cotton Seed Cake 41%."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it contained 40.38 per cent of protein.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a ecttonseecl cake containing less than 41 per cent of protein had been 
substituted in Elie or in part for cottonseed cake containing 41 per cent of 
protein, 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 thereof was not plainly and 
conspicuously marked on the outside of the package.
On January 10, 1921, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100 and costs.
B. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.