10126.?Adulteration and misbranding of wheat shorts.    IT. S.     *     *      *     v.
Peerless   Milling   &   Feed   Co.,    a   Corporation.     Plea    of   guilty.?
Fine, $10 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 13922.    I. S. No. 9189-r.)
On January 17, 1921, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of?
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court of the United States for said district an information against the Peerless?
Milling & Feed Co., a corporation, Cairo, 111., alleging shipment by said com??
pany, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about September 27, 1919,?
from the State of Illinois into the State of Alabama, of a quantity of wheat?
shorts which was adulterated and misbranded.
Examination of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed that it was reground bran with screenings and with some?
flour added.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that?
certain substances, to wit, ground bran and flour, had been mixed and packed?
therewith so as to lower, reduce, and injuriously affect its quality and strength?
and had been substituted in part for wheat shorts with ground screenings, which?
the said article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement, to wit, " Wheat?
Shorts With Ground Screenings," borne on the tags attached to the sacks con??
taining the said article, regarding it and the ingredients and substances con??
tained therein, was false and misleading in that the said statement represented?
that the article was wheat shorts with ground screenings, and for the further?
reason that the article was' labeled as aforesaid sd as to deceive and mislead?
the purchaser into the belief that it was wheat shorts with ground screenings,?
whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not wheat shorts with ground screenings,?
but was a mixture composed in part of ground bran and added flour. Misbrand??
ing was alleged for the further reason that the article was a mixture composed?
in part of ground bran and added flour, and was prepared in imitation of, and?
offered for sale and sold under the distinctive name of, another article, to wit,?
wheat shorts with ground screenings.
On May 17, 1921, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf of?
the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.