9718. Misbranding of   cottonseed   cake.     U.   S.     *     *      *     v.   International
Vegetable Oil Co., a Corporation.     Plea of guilty.     Fine, $50.     (F. &
D. No. 13091.     I. S. No. 11975-r.)
On February 4, 1920, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Texas, 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 
International Vegetable Oil Co., a corporation, trading at Houston, Tex., alleg- 
ing shipment by said company, on or about November 2, 1918, in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act, from.the State of Texas into the State of Kansas, of 
a quantity of cottonseed cake which was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it contained 36.80 per cent of protein and 15.39 per cent 
of crude fiber.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that the statement, to wit, "Guaranteed Analysis Protein Not Less than 41 
per cent * * * Crude Fibre Not More than 14 per cent," borne on the tags 
attached to the sacks containing the article, regarding it and the ingredients 
and substances contained therein, was false and misleading in that the said 
statement represented that the article contained not less than 41 per cent of
protein and not. more than 14 per cent of crude fiber, and for the further reason 
that the article was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the pur- 
chaser into the belief that it contained not less than 41 per cent of protein and 
not more than 14 per cent of crude fiber, whereas, in truth and in fact, it con- 
tained less than 41 per cent of protein and more, than 14 per cent of crude 
fiber, to wit, 36.80 per cent of protein and 15.39 per cent of crude fiber.
On February 28, 1921, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.