10774.?misbranding of butter.    TJ. S. v. Trinidad Creamery Co., a Corpora?
tion.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $25.    (F. & D. No. 14999.    I. S. No. 10815-t.)
On November 26, 1921, the United States attorney for the District of Colorado,?
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 Trinidad?
Creamery Co., a corporation, Trinidad, Colo., alleging shipment by said com??
pany, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about May 9,?
1921, from the State of Colorado into the State of New Mexico, of a quantity of?
butter which was misbranded. The article was labeled in part: " None Nicer?
Brand Butter * * * One Pound Manufactured by Trinidad Creamery Co.?
Trinidad, Colo.   *     * * "
Examination of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed that the average net weight of 3 prints thereof was 15.24?
ounces.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that?
the statement, to wit, " One Pound," borne on the packages containing the?
article, regarding the said article, was false and misleading in that the said?
statement represented that each of said packages contained not less than 1?
pound of the said article, and for the further reason that it was labeled as afore??
said so as to deceive and mislead a person into the belief that each of the said?
packages contained not less than 1 pound of the article, whereas, in truth and
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in fact, each of said packages did not contain 1 pound of the said article, but?
did contain a less amount. Misbranding was alleged for the further reason?
that the article was food in package form and the quantity of the contents was?
not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package.
On June 21, 1922, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf?
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.