8023. Misbranding of alfalfa leaf meal and alfalfa meal. IT. S. v. 29 Bags of 
Alfalfa Leaf Meal and 276 Bags of Alfalfa Meal. Consent decree of 
condemnation.     Products   ordered  released  under  bond  for  relabeling.
(F. D. C. No. 5687.   Sample Nos. 18668-E,18669-E.)
These products contained less protein and more fiber tea.n the percentages 
declared.
On September 11, 1941, the United States attorney for the-District of Mary- 
land filed a libel against 29 bags of alfalfa leaf meal and 276 bags of alfalfa meal 
at Washington Grove, Md., alleging that the articles had been shipped in inter- 
State commerce on or about August 4,1941, by Saunders Mills, Inc., from Toledo, 
Ohio; and charging that they were misbranded. They were labeled in part: 
"Carotene Brand Leaf Meal" or "Alfalfa Meal."
The articles were alleged to be misbranded in that the following stat^mehls 
in the labeling, (Carotene brand leaf meal) "Crude Protein, hot: less than 20:6 
Per Cent * * * Crude Fiber, not more than 18.0 Per. Cent" and (alfalfa 
meal ("Crude Protein; hot less than 13.0 Per Cent * *
., ,.*¦ Code Fiber,/not 
more than 33.0 .Per Cent," were false and misleading as Applied to articles' that 
contained an average of 16.80 percent crude protein and 29.16 percent crude 
fiber in the 
.case of the former, and 12.42 percent crude protein and 36.58 percent 
crude fiber, in the case of the latteiV
: Oh October, 30> 1941, Saunders-Mills, Inc.* claimant, having admitted the 
allegations^, the libel judgment Of condemnationwas entered and the product 
was ordered released iihddr bond conditioned that it be relabeled in compliance 
withithe law tinder the supervision offthe Food and Drug Administration.
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