17515. Misbranding of cottonseed meal.    TJ.  S. v. 160  Sacks of  Cottonseed
Meal.     Consent  decree  of condemnation and forfeiture.    Product 
released under bond.     (F. & D. No. 24637.   I. S. No. 037808.    S. No. 2992.)
Samples of the cottonseed meal from the herein-described interstate shipment 
having been found to contain less protein than declared on the label, the 
Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney 
for the Western District of Missouri.
On March 22, 1930, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and condemnation 
of 160 sacks of cottonseed meal, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Lebanon, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Southern 
Cotton Oil Co., Newport, Ark., on or about February 17, 1930, and had been 
transported from the State of Arkansas into the State of Missouri, and 
charging misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was 
labeled in part: " Chickasha Prime Cottonseed Cake or Meal * * * Guar- 
anteed Analysis, Protein Not less than 43 Per Cent."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the state- 
ment on the label, " Protein not less than 43 Per Cent," was false and misleading 
and deceived and misled the purchaser.
The Chickasha Cotton Oil Co., Newport, Ark., appeared as claimant for the 
property and admitted the allegations of the libel and consented that judgment 
be entered for condemnation and forfeiture of the product. On April 2, 1930, 
a decree was entered by the court finding the product misbranded and order-
ing that it be released to the said claimant upon payment of costs and the 
execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned in part that it should 
not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the Federal food and drugs 
act.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.