26678. Adulteration and misbranding of coffee screenings.    IT. S. v. Alexander
Moseley.   Plea of guilty.   Fine, $50 and costs.    (F. & D. no. 38031.   Sample 
nos. 62357-B to 62366-B, incl., 68172-B.)
This case involved a product sold as coffee screenings that was found to 
consist in a large part of coffee chaff.
On October, 5, 1936, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court an information against Alexander Moseley, Chicago, Ill., 
alleging shipment by said defendant in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, 
on or about January 7, 8', 10, 22, and 27 and February 1, 1938, from the 
State of Illinois into the State of Louisiana, and on or about February 8, 
1936, from the State of Illinois into the State of Ohio, of quantities of coffee 
screenings that were adulterated and misbranded.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that coffee chaff had been 
mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower its quality and strength 
and had been substituted in whole or in part for coffee screenings, which the 
article purported to be.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that the statement "Coffee 
Screenings", borne on the bags containing the article, was false and misleading 
and in -that it was labeled so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser, since 
the said statement represented that the article was composed wholly of coffee 
screenings; whereas it was not composed wholly of coffee screenings but 
was composed in a large part of coffee chaff.
Misbranding was alleged for the further reason that the article consisted 
of a mixture composed in a large part of coffee chaff and was offered for sale 
under the distinctive name of an article, namely, coffee screenings.
On December 7, 1936, the defendant entered a plea of guilty and the court 
imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.