401. Adulteration and Misbranding of wheat middlings and screenings. 
U.S. * * * -v. 200 * * * Sacks of a Product Purporting to be 
Standard "Wheat Middlings and Screenings. Default decree of con- 
demnation   and   forfeiture.    Product   ordered   sold.     (P.   &   D.   No.
12066.    I. S. No. 11439-r.    S. No. C-1682.)
On February 3, 1920, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Ohio, 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 200 sacks, each containing 100 pounds, of an article pur- 
porting to be standard wheat middlings and screenings, consigned on August 
9, 1919, by the Martens & Ketels Co., Sioux City, Iowa, and invoiced by the 
Donahue-Stratton Co., Milwaukee, Wis., remaining unsold in the original un- 
broken packages at Cambridge, Ohio, alleging that the article had been 
shipped and transported from the State of Iowa into the State of Ohio, and 
charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
It was alleged in substance in the libel that the article was adulterated for 
the reason that reground bran had been mixed and packed with, and sub- 
stituted wholly or in part for, the article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement on the label, 
to wit, "Standard Middlings and Screenings, not exceeding Mill Run," was 
false and misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser, and for the 
further reason that said article was an imitation of, and offered for sale under 
the distinctive name of, another article.
On February 12, 1921, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be sold by the United States marshal after it had been 
relabeled.