13770. Adulteration  and  misbranding- of rice.     U.  S. v.  735 Bags  of Rice.
Prodnet ordered released under bond. (F. & D. No. 19504. I. S. No. 
3562-v.    S. No. E-4910.)
On or about January 19, 1925, the United States attorney for the District 
of Porto Rico, 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 735 bags of rice, at San Juan, P. R., alleging that the 
article had been shipped by the American Rice Milling Co., New Orleans, La., 
on or about October 7, 1924, and transported from the State of Louisiana into 
the Territory of Porto Rico, and charging adulteration and misbranding in 
violation of the food and drugs act as amended.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed vegetable sub- 
stance.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was food in package 
form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously stated 
on the outside of the package.
On September 2, 1925, the product having been theretofore released by order 
of the court to the claimant, the American Rice Milling Co., New Orleans, La., 
under the terms of a bond in the sum of $3,200, conditioned that it be used for 
chicken feed, and the said claimant having established that a portion of the 
product had since been reconditioned and found by the proper authorities to be 
fit for human consumption, an amended decree was entered, authorizing that 
627 sacks of the said product be sold for human food and that 45 sacks be 
sold for chicken feed.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.