11918. Adulteration and alleged misbranding of screenings.    U. S. v. 49,730
Pounds of Screenings. Decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 17535. I. S. No. 0666-v. 
S. No. C-3980.)
On May 18, 1923, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Illi- 
nois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Oourt of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure and 
condemnation of 49,720 pounds, more or less, of screenings, remaining unsold 
in the original and unbroken packages at East St. Louis, Ill., consigned by the 
Armour Grain Co., Kansas City, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped 
from Kansas City, Mo., on or about February 21, 1923, and transported from 
the State of Missouri into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration and 
misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that min- 
eral matter of the nature of sand, to wit, 40 per cent of fine sand, had been 
mixed and packed with and substituted wholly or in part for the said article. 
Adulteration was alleged for the further reason that the article had been 
mixed in a manner whereby damage or inferiority was concealed.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the designation, 
?" screenings," was false and misleading, and for the further reason that it was 
sold under the distinctive name of another article.
On June 23, 1923, the Midwest Flour & Feed Co., East St. Louis, Ill., having 
appeared as claimant for the property, a decree of the court was entered adr 
judging the product to be adulterated and liable to condemnation and forfei- 
ture, and it was ordered by the court that the said product be released to the 
claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a 
bond in the sum of $400, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.