16826. Adulteration and Misbranding of cottonseed meal.     IT. S. v. Eastern
Cotton Oil Co. Plea of guilty. Fine, $100. (F. & D. No. 22581. I. S. 
Nos. 20092-x, 20270-x.)
On September 24, 1928, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of North Carolina, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the Eastern Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, Hertford, N. C, alleging shipment 
by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about November 
3, 1927, from the State of North Carolina into the State of Pennsylvania,' 
of quantities of cottonseed meal, which was adulterated and misbranded. The 
article was labeled in part: "Dutch Maid Cotton Seed Meal * * * Manu- 
factured By Eastern Cotton Oil Company, * * * Guarantee Protein not less 
than 41.00% Equivalent to Ammonia 8.00%."
It was" alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
cottonseed meal containing less than 41 per cent of protein, the equivalent of 
8 per cent of ammonia, had been substituted for the said article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statements, to wit, "Protein 
not less than 41.00% Equivalent to Ammonia 8.00%," borne on the label, were 
false and misleading in that the said statements represented that the article 
contained not less than 41 per cent of protein, the equivalent of 8 per cent of 
ammonia, and for the further reason that the article was labeled as aforesaid so 
as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that the article contained 
not less than 41 per cent of protein, the equivalent of 8 per cent of ammonia, 
whereas it contained less than 41 per cent of protein!
On September 23, 1929, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100.
ARTHXJK M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.