30869. Adulteration and misbranding of wheat gray shorts and screenings. 
U.  S. v.  Shawnee  Milling  Co.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, 325 and costs.
(F. & D. No. 42744.    Sample No. 3918-D.)
Brown shorts and screenings had been substituted wholly or in part for 
wheat gray shorts and screenings in this product. It also contained crude 
fiber in excess of the amount declared on the label.
On August 30, 1939, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against the Shawnee Milling Co., a corporation 
of Shawnee, Okla., alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act on or about November 8, 1938, from the State of Oklahoma into 
the State of Texas of a quantity of wheat gray shorts and screenings that 
were adulterated and misbranded.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that wheat brown shorts and 
screenings had been substituted in whole or in part for wheat gray shorts and 
screenings, which it purported to be.
It was alleged to be misbranded in that the statements, "Wheat Gray Shorts 
and Screenings" and "Crude Fiber not more than 6 percent," borne on the tag 
attached to the sacks containing it, were false and misleading and were borne 
on the said tags so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser, since it did not 
consist of wheat gray shorts and screenings, but did consist in whole or in part 
of wheat brown shorts and screenings and it contained- more than 6 percent, 
namely, not less than 7.22 percent, of crude fiber.
On September 16, 1939, a plea of guilty having been entered on behalf of 
the defendant, the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.