14466. Adulteration and misbranding of cottonseed calce.     IT. S. v. Vernon
Cotton Oil Co. Plea of snilty. Fine, $100. (F. & D. No. 19666. I. S. 
No. 22005-v.)
On July 22, 1925, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis- 
trict Court of the United States for said district an information against the 
Vernon Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, Vernon, Tex., alleging shipment by said 
company, in violation of the food and drags act, on or about June 30, 1924, 
from the State of Texas into the State of Kansas, of a quantity of cottonseed 
cake which was adulterated and misbranded. The article was labeled in part: 
(Tag) "43% Protein Cottonseed Cake Prime Quality Manufactured by Vernon
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Cotton Oil Company Vernon, Texas.   Guaranteed Analysis: Crude Protein not 
less than 43.00 Per Cent."
Analysis by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of a sample of the 
article from the shipment showed 41.16 per cent of protein. 
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Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a product which contained less than 43 per cent of protein had been sub- 
stituted for 43 per cent protein cottonseed cake, which the said article pur- 
ported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statements, to wit, "43% 
Protein Cottonseed Cake" and "Guaranteed Analysis: Crude Protein not less 
than 43.00 Per .Cent," borne on the label, were false and misleading, in that 
the said statements represented that the article was 43 per cent protein cot- 
tonseed cake, and contained not less than 43 per cent of crude j>rotein, and 
for the further reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive"and
mislead the purchaser into the belief that it was 43 per cent protein cotton- 
seed cake, and contained not less than 43 per cent of crude protein, whereas 
it was a product which contained less than 43 per cent of crude protein.
On November 16, 1925, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.