S21S.  Adulteration  and   misbranding-   of   rice   bran.     XT.   S.    *    *    *    v.   Levy?
Rice Milling' Co., a Corporation.     Plea of guilty.    Fine, $10.     (F. &
D. No.  0840.    I.  S. No.  12121-p.)
On September 27, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District?
of Louisiana, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an information against the?
Levy Rice Milling Co., a corporation, New Orleans, La., alleging shipment by?
said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about?
March 12, 1918, under the name of A. C. Wooley & Co., from the State of?
Louisiana into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of an unlabeled article which?
was billed as rice bran, and which was adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article made by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed the following results:
Ter cent.
Moisture?
    8. 77
Ether extract?
10.07
Crude liber?
 22.70
Crude protein?
   9.47
Ash____?
13.11
Acid insoluble asli?
:   9.02
Examination showed the addition of rice hulls.
Adulteration o':. the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that a substance, to wit, rice hulls, had been mixed and packed therewith so?
as to lower and reduce and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and?
had been substituted in part for rice bran, which the article purported to be.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that it was food in?
package form, and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicu??
ously marked on the outside of the package.
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On June 12, 1920, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf?
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $10.
B. D. BALL, Acting Secreturf of Agriculture.