14963.?Misbranding of cottonseed meal.     TJ. S. v. SOO  Sacks  of  Cottonseed
Meal.     Product   ordered   released   under   bond   to   be   relabeled.
(F. & D. No. 21663.    I. S. Nos. 15453-x, 15454-x.    S. No. C-5330.)
On or about February 25, 1927, the United States attorney for the Northern?
District of Alabama, 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 condemnation of 800 sacks of cottonseed meal, at Bessemer, Ala.,?
consigned in interstate commerce from Greenwood, Miss., into the State of?
Alabama, alleging that the article had been -shipped by the Buckeye Cotton Oil?
Co., about February 4, 1927, and charging adulteration in violation of the food
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and drugs act as amended. The article was labeled in part: "100 Lbs. Net?
Buckeye 36? Protein Cottonseed Meal Manufactured by The Buckeye Cotton?
Oil Co., Cincinnati, Ohio Guarantee Protein 36.00?."
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the?
statement "100 Lbs. Net Protein 36.00?," borne on the label, was false and?
misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser, and 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 March 18, 1927, the Buckeye Cotton Oil Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, claimant,?
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having given bond in the sum?
of $1,000, conditioned upon the faithful rebranding of the product, a decree was?
entered, ordering that the meal be released to the said claimant upon payment?
of the costs of the proceedings.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.