14864. Misbranding of cottonseed cake.     U.  S. v. 100  Sacks  of Cottonseed
Cake. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product 
released under bond.     (F. & D. No. 21505.    I. S. No. 12677-x.    S. No.
W-2080.)
On December 28, 1926, the United States attorney for the District of Wyom- 
ing, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
-Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 100 sacks of cottonseed cake, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Casper, Wyo., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Planters Cottonseed Products Co., Dallas, Tex., on or about November 16, 
1926, and transported from the State of Texas into the State of Wyoming, 
and charging misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in substance in the libel that the article was misbranded, in 
that it was labeled, " Protein, not less than 43%," which statement was false 
and misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser, in that the said state- 
ment represented that the article contained 43 per cent of protein, whereas 
it did not but did contain a much lower percentage of protein.
On January 10, 1927, the Planters Cottonseed Products Co., Dallas, Tex., 
having appeared as claimant for the property and having consented to the 
entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and 
it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant 
upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in 
' the sum of $300, conditioned in part that it not be sold or otherwise disposed 
of contrary to law, said decree further ordering that the product be relabeled 
to show the contents thereof.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.