15644.?Misbranding- of cottonseed meal.     17.  S. v.  100 Sacks  of  Cottonseed
Meal.     Consent  decree  of condemnation  and  forfeitui-e.     Product
released under bond.     (F. & D.  No.   22297.    I.  S, No.  23342-x.     S.   No.?
353.)
On December 17, 1927, the United States attorney for the District of Ne??
braska, 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 100 sacks of cottonseed meal, at Crawford, Nebr., alleging that?
the article had been shipped by the Traders Oil Mill Co., from Fort Worth, Tex.,?
on or about December 9, 1927, and transported from the State of Texas into the?
State of Nebraska, and charging misbranding in violation of the food and?
drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " 43 per cent Protein Cottonseed?
Meal Prime Quality Manufactured by Oil Traders Mill Company, Fort Worth,?
Texas Guaranteed Analysis crude protein not less than 43 per cent."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbrauded in that the?
statements, " 43 per cent Protein " and " Crude protein
' not less than 43 per?
cent," borne on the label, were false and misleading and deceived and misled?
the purchaser.
On December 26, 1927, the Traders Oil Mill Co., Fort Worth, Tex., claimant,?
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented that judg??
ment for the condemnation and forfeiture of the property be entered, a decree ??
was entered finding the product misbranded, and ordering that it be released?
to the said claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the exe-
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?cution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned that it not be sold until?
relabeled by obliterating the statements, " 43 per cent Protein," and substituting?
therefor the true statements, " 41 per cent protein."
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.