23871. Misbranding of  meat   scrap.    U.   S.  v.  Arthur  H.   Bryant   (Herbert
Bryant's   Son).    Plea   of   guilty.    Fine,   $25.     (F.   &   D.   no.   32152. 
Sample nos. 14129-A, 14131-A.)
This case was based on interstate shipments of a product sold as meat scrap 
which was found to consist in part of bone scrap, and to contain less protein, 
less fat, and more fiber than declared on the label.
On November 15, 1934, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against Arthur H. Bryant, trading as Herbert 
Bryant's Son, Alexandria, Va., alleging shipment by said defendant in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 20 and August 4, 1933, from the 
State of Virginia into the State of Maryland, of quantities of meat scrap which 
was misbranded. The article was labeled in part: " 50% Meat Scrap Guaran- 
teed Analysis Protein 50.00% Fat 10.00% Fibre 2.00% Ingredients' Meat 
Scrap Bone   Manufactured by Herbert Bryant's Son Alexandria, Va."
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that the statements, " 50% Meat 
Scrap Guaranteed Analysis Protein 50.00% Fat 10.00%? Fibre 2.00%", 
borne on the sacks, were false and misleading, and for the further reason that 
the article was labeled so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser, since the said 
statements represented that the article was meat scrap containing not less than 
50 percent of protein, not less than 10 percent of fat, and not more than 2 per- 
cent of fiber, whereas it did not consist wholly of meat scrap, but consisted in 
part of bone scrap and it contained less than 50 percent of protein, less than 10 
percent of fat, and more than 2 percent of fiber. Misbranding was alleged for 
the further reason that the article was composed in part of bone scrap and was 
offered for sale and sold under the distinctive name of another article, namely, 
meat scrap.
On December 4, 1934, the defendant entered a plea of guilty, and the court 
imposed a fine of $25.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.