16820. Misbranding of cottonseed meal.    TJ.  S. v. 500 Sacks  of Cottonseed
Cake or Meal. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 23270. I. S. No. 07507. 
S. No. 1384.)
On December 24, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of Minne- 
sota, 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 condem- 
nation of 500 sacks of cottonseed cake or meal, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Minneapolis, Minn., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Dallas Oil & Refining Co., from Dallas, Tex., December 13, 1928, 
and transported from the State of Texas into the State of Minnesota, and 
charging misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was 
labeled in part: " Cottonseed Cake or Meal, Manufactured by Dallas Oil & 
Refining Co., Dallas, Texas.    *    *    *    Analysis Protein Basis 43 per cent."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the state- 
ment " Protein Basis 43 per cent," borne on the label, was false and misleading 
and deceived and misled the purchaser.
On April 9, 1929, the Dallas Oil & Refining Co., Dallas, Tex., having appeared 
as claimant for the property and having consented to the entry of a decree of
condemnation and forfeiture, judgment was entered ordering that the product 
be released to the claimant upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond 
in the sum of $1,000, conditioned in part that it be relabeled, under the super- 
vision of this department, with its correct protein content.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Becretary of Agriculture.