14813. Adulteration   and misbranding of   cottonseed   meal.     U.   S.   vu  F.   W.
Brode Corp.    Plea of guilty.    Fine and costs, $50.     (F. & D.  No.
19339.    I. S. No. 9051-v.)
On February 14, 1925, the United States attorney for the Middle District 
of Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the F. W. Brode Corp., Memphis, Tenn., alleging shipment by said company, 
in the name of the Blytheville Cotton Oil Co., in violation of the food and 
drugs act as amended, on or about January 21, 1924, from Blytheville, Ark., 
into the State of Tennessee, of a quantity of cottonseed meal which was 
adulterated and misbranded. The article was invoiced as " Cotton Seed 
Meal, Owl 41%."
Analysis by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of a sample of 
the article showed that it contained 38.4 per cent protein.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a substance deficient in protein, in that it contained less than 41 per 
cent of protein, had been substituted for Owl brand cottonseed meal containing 
41 per cent of protein, which the said article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was an imitation 
of and was offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article, 
to wit, cottonseed meal containing 41 per cent of protein. Misbranding was 
alleged for the further reason that the article was food in package form and 
the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously marked on 
the outside of the package.
On October 7, 1926, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a penalty in the 
amount of $50 in lieu of fine and costs.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.