20795.  Misbranding of cottonseed meal.    IT. S. v. East St. Louis Cotton Oil 
Co.  (The Pine Blue Cotton  Oil Mill).    Plea of guilty.     Fine, $25.
(F. & D. no. 29515.    I. S. no. 50956.)
This case was based on the interstate shipment of a quantity of cottonseed 
meal which contained less than 43 percent of protein, the amount declared on 
the label, and which was also short weight.
On April 17, 1933, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Arkansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States an information against the East St. Louis 
Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, trading at Pine Bluff, Ark., alleging shipment by 
said company, under the name of the Pine Bluff Cotton Oil Mill, a branch of the 
defendant corporation, on or about April 2, 1932, from the State of Arkansas 
into the State of Kansas, of a quantity of cottonseed meal that was mis- 
branded in violation of the Food and Drugs Act as amended. The article was 
labeled in part: (Tag) "100 Pounds Net Guaranteed Analysis Protein, not 
less than 43%, * * * Choctaw Sales Company, * * * Kansas City, 
Missouri."
It was alleged in the information that the article was misbranded in that 
the statements, "100 Pounds Net Guaranteed Analysis Protein, not less than 
43% ", borne on the tag attached to 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 it contained less than 43 percent of protein, 
and each of a large number of the sacks contained less than 100 pounds of the 
article. Misbranding was alleged for the further reason that the article was 
food in package form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and con- 
spicuously marked on the outside of the packages, since the statement made was 
incorrect.
On May 15, 1933, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.