16240. Misbranding of cottonseed cake screenings.    tJ. S. v. 400 Sacks ot
Cottonseed Cake Screenings. Decree of condemnation entered. 
Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 21392. I. S, No. 1769-x. 
S. No. C-5260.)
On November 21, 1926, the United States attorney for the District of Kansas,, 
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 screenings, at Assaria, Kans., alleging that the 
article had been shipped by the Mutual Cottonseed Oil 'Mill from Ft. Worth, 
Tex., on or about November 8, 1926, and transported from the State of Texas 
into the State of Kansas, and charging misbranding in violation of the food 
and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " 43 per cent Protein Cracked 
Cottonseed Cake Prime Quality, Manufactured by Mutual Cotton Seed Oil,Mill, 
Fort Worth, Texas. Guaranteed Analysis: Crude Protein not less than 43.00' 
Per Cent"
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the 
statement " Guaranteed Analysis: Protein not less than 43 per cent" was false 
and misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser to believe that the article 
contained not less than 43 per cent of protein, when in truth and in fact it 
contained a less amount
On December 17,1926, the Mutual Cottonseed Oil Mill, St Worth,- 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 $500,. 
conditioned in part that it be rebranded to show the true contents.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.