19435.  Misbranding of  wheat   bran.     U.   S.   v.   115   Sacks   of   Wheat   Bran. 
Product released under bond to be properly marked.     (F. & D. No.
27105.    I. S. No. 41876.    S. No. 5343.)
Examination of samples of wheat bran from the shipment herein described 
having shown that the product bore no statement of the quantity of contents, 
the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney 
for the Eastern District of Missouri.
On October 23, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 115 sacks of wheat bran, remaining in the original unbroken 
sacks at Barnhart, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped on or about 
August 20, 1931, by the Aviston Milling Co., from East St. Louis, Ill., and had 
been transported in interstate commerce from the State of Illinois into the 
State of Missouri, and charging misbranding in violation of the food and drugs 
act as amended. The article was labeled: "Aviston Results guaranteed Pure 
Bran Analysis   *    *    *   Aviston Milling Company East St. Louis, Illinois."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that it was in 
package form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly marked on the 
outside of the package.
On January 16, 1932, the Aviston Milling Co., East St. Louis, Ill., having 
appeared as claimant and having admitted the allegations of the libel, it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to said claimant upon pay- 
ment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $100, conditioned that 
the said product be properly marked, and further conditioned that it should not 
be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the provisions of the food and drugs 
act or the law of any State, Territory, or insular possession.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.