12633. Adulteration   and   misbranding   of   cottonseed   meal.    XJ.   S.   v.   4O0
Sacks of Cottonseed Meal. Decree of condemnation and for- 
feiture. Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 17038. I. 8. 
No. 3168-v.    S. No. E-1243.)
On December 18, 1922, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Florida, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure 
and condemnation of 400 sacks of cottonseed meal, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Jacksonville, Fla., consigned by the Empire Cotton Oil 
Co., Cordele, Ga., alleging that the article had been shipped from Cordele, Ga., 
on or about November 20, 1922, and transported from the State of Georgia into 
the State of Florida, 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 a 
substance low in protein had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce 
and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength and had been sub- 
stituted wholly or in part for the said article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was labeled, " Cot- 
tonseed Meal Guaranteed Analysis Protein 36%," which statement was false 
and misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser, since the said product 
was deficient in protein. Misbranding was alleged for the further reason that 
the article was an imitation of and offered for sale under the distinctive name 
of another article.
On January 11, 1923, Seals & Webster, Jacksonville, Fla., having appeared 
as claimant for the property, judgment of condemnation was entered and it 
was ordered by the court that the product should be released to the said 
claimant upon payment of -the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a 
bond in the sum of $500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned 
in part that if it be sold or disposed of in any form or branding, said brand- 
ing shotild accurately and correctly describe the said product.
HOWARD M. GOBE, Secretary of Agriculture.