12679. Adulteration   and   misbranding   of   cottonseed   meal.    V.   S.   v.   30O *
Sacks and 400 Sacks of Cottonseed Meal. Decrees of condemna- 
tion   and   forfeiture.      Product   released   under   band.      (F. & D. Nos.
17004, 17043.    I. S. Nos. 3170-v, 3208-v.    S. Nos. E-4212, E-4244.)
On or about November 22 and December 20, 1922, respectively, the United 
Stales attorney for the Southern District of Florida, acting upon reports by 
the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for 
said district libels praying the seizure and condemnation of 700 sacks of 
cottonseed meal, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Jacksonville, 
Fla., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Planters Oil Co., from 
Albany, Ga., in part on or about November 17, H922, and in part on or about 
November 19, 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. The article was labeled in part: "Ammonia * * * 
7.00 per cent."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libels for the reason that a 
substance low in ammonia had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce 
and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength and had been sub- 
stituted in whole or in part for the said article.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that it was labeled 
" Cotton Seed Meal Guaranteed Analysis. Ammonia 7.00 per cent," which 
statement was false and misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser, 
since the article was deficient in ammonia.
On March 1, 1928, decrees of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and 
it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the claimant upon 
payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the 
aggregate sum of $2,400, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned 
in part that the product be correctly relabeled.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.