15632.?Misbranding   of   alfalfa,  meal.     TJ.   S.   v.  300   Sacks   of  Alfalfa  Meal.
Consent    decree   of    condemnation    and    forfeiture.     Product    re??
leased under bond.     (P. & D. No. 22470.    I. S. No. 17463-x.    S. No. 585.)
On or about February 23, 1928, the United States attorney for the District?
of Oregon, 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 300 sacks of alfalfa meal, remaining in the original?
unbroken packages at Portland, Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped?
by the California Hawaiian Milling Co., from San Francisco, Calif., on or about?
December 1, 1927, and transported from the State of California into the State?
of Oregon, and charging misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act.?
The article was labeled in part: " C and H Poultry Meal Fancy Alfalfa Meal?
* * * Crude Protein, not less than 18? * * * Manufactured by Cali??
fornia Hawaiian Milling Co.,    *    *    *    San Francisco, Calif."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded, in that the state??
ment on the label, " Crude Protein not less than 18?," was false and misleading?
and deceived and misled the purchaser.
On February 29, 1928, the California Hawaiian Milling Company, Inc., San?
Francisco, Calif., 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 $50, conditioned in part that it not be sold or otherwise?
disposed of until relabeled in manner satisfactory to this department.
W. M. JAKDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.