20671. Adulteration   and  Misbranding of   -wheat   gray   shorts   and   wheat
screenings.     U.   S.  v.  Rea-Patterson  Milling   Co.     Plea  of  guilty. 
Fine, $25 and costs.     (F. & D. no. 29362.    I.  S. no. 45176.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of a product represented to be 
wheat gray shorts and wheat screenings, which was found to consist of brown 
shorts with screenings, and to contain a larger percentage of crude fiber than 
labeled.
On January 10, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Kansas, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid an information against the Rea-
Patterson Milling Co., a corporation, Coffeyville, Kans., alleging shipment by 
said company in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about January 8, 
1932, from the State of Kansas into the State of Arkansas, of a quantity of 
alleged wheat gray shorts and wheat screenings, that were adulterated and mis- 
branded. The article was labeled in part: (Sack) "Manufactured by The 
Rea-Patterson Milling Co. Coffeyville, Kansas * * * Wheat Gray Shorts 
and Wheat Screenings * * * Guaranteed Analysis * * * Crude Fiber 
5.5%."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that a 
substance, brown shorts with screenings, had been substituted for wheat gray 
shorts and wheat screenings, which the article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statements, " Wheat Gray 
Shorts and Wheat Screenings " and " Crude Fiber 5.5% ", borne on the sacks, 
were false and misleading, and for the further reason that the article was 
labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser, since the 
article was brown shorts with screenings, and contained more than 5.5 percent 
of crude fiber, namely, not less than 6.57 percent of crude fiber. Misbranding 
was alleged for the further reason that the article was offered for sale under 
the distinctive name of another article.
On February 20, 1933, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.