15998. Adulteration   and   misbranding:   of   grarbagre   product.    TJ.   S.   v.   250
Sacks of Garbage Product.     Product ordered released under bond.
(F. & D. No. 17296.    I. S. No. 5176-v.    S. No. C-3911.)
On February 17, 1923, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Missouri, 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 250 sacks of garbage product at Kansas City, Mo., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by the Pan American Feed Milling Co., West 
Toledo, Ohio, on or about December 30, 1922, and transported from the State 
of Ohio into the State of Missouri, and charging adulteration and misbranding 
in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " Gar- 
bage Product PAF * * * Guaranteed Analysis: Protein not less than 18%, 
Fat not less than 12%, Fibre not more than 07%. Pan American Feed Mill- 
ing Co. Manufacturers and Distributors, West Toledo^, Ohio."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance deficient in protein, high in fiber, and containing glass, an added poison- 
ous and deleterious ingredient, had been substituted wholly or in part for an 
article containing 18 per cent of protein.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement on the label, 
" Protein not less than 18%, Fat not less than 12%, Fibre not more than 07%,'" 
was false and misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser.
On December 6, 1923, the Pan American Feed Milling Co., West Toledo, Ohio,, 
having appeared as claimant for the property, and having executed a bond in 
the sum of $1,000, conditioned that it be disposed of in conformity with the 
pi'ovisions of the Federal food and drugs act, judgment was entered ordering 
that the product be released to the said claimant
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.