20962. Misbranding of  cottonseed   screenings.    17.   S.  v.   Southland   Cotton
Oil  Co.    Plea  of  nolo  contendere.    Fine,  $5.     (F.   &  D.   no.   29445. 
I. S. nos. 47477, 47490.)
This case was based on interstate shipments of cottonseed screenings that 
contained less than 43 percent of protein, the amount declared on the label.
On March 1, 1933, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against the Southland Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, 
Paris, Tex., alleging shipment by said company in violation, of the Food and 
Drugs Act, on or about September 24 and November 7, 1931, from the State of 
Texas into the State of Kansas, of quantities of cottonseed screenings that 
were misbranded. The article was labeled in part: " Southland's Cottonseed 
Cake or Meal Prime Quality Guaranteed Analysis Crude Protein, not less than 
43% * * * Made * * * By Southland Cotton Oil Company, Paris, 
Texas."
It was alleged in the information that the article was misbranded in that 
the statement, " Guaranteed Analysis Crude Protein, not less than 43%", borne 
on the tags attached to the sacks containing the article, was false and mislead- 
ing; and for the further reason that the article was labeled so as to deceive 
and mislead the purchaser, since it contained less than 43 percent of protein.
On April 25, 1933, a plea of nolo contendere to the information was entered 
on behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $5.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.