14984.?Adulteration and misbranding of cottonseed cake.    V. S. v. 400 Sacks
of Cottonseed Cake.     Decree  entered,  ordering  product released?
under  bond to  be relabeled.     (F.  & D.  No.  21451.    I.   S.  No.   15104-x.
S. No. W-1887.)
On December 11, 1926, the United States attorney for the District of New?
Mexico, 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 400 sacks of cottonseed cake, at Colmor, N. Mex.,?
alleging that the article had been shipped by the Brownwood Cotton Oil?
Mills, Brownwood, Tex., November 28, 1926, and transported from the State?
of Texas into the State of New Mexico, and charging adulteration and mis??
branding in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled?
in part: (Tag) "43 Per Cent Protein Cottonseed Cake, Prime Quality, Manu??
factured by Brownwood Cotton Oil Mills, Brownwood, Texas, Guaranteed?
Analysis, Protein not less than 43 per cent."
It was alleged in substance in the libel that the said sacks wrere mis-?
branded and the contents thereof adulterated, in that the statements on the?
labels, regarding the chemical contents of the article, were false and mislead??
ing and were intended and calculated to deceive and did deceive the purchaser,?
in that a product containing less than 43 per cent of protein had been sub??
stituted for 43 per cent protein cottonseed cake, which the said article?
purported to be.
On January 17, 1927, Roscoe Spriggs, Colmor, N. Mex., having appeared?
as claimant for the property, and the court having found that the material?
allegations of the libel were true, a decree was entered, ordering 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 $1,500, conditioned in?
part that it be relabeled to show the true protein content.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.