14190. Misbranding   of   meat   scraps.    17.   S.   v.   82   Sacks   of   Meat   Scraps.
Decree   finding   product   misbranded   and   ordering   its   release.
(F. & D. No. 20768.    I. S., No. 9582-x.    S. No. W-1843.)
On January 15, 1926, the United States attorney for the District of Utah, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure and condemna- 
tion of 82 sacks of meat scraps, remaining in the original unbroken packages at 
Ogden, Utah, alleging that the article had been shipped by the Colorado 
Animal By-Products Co., from Denver, Colo., on or about September 25, 1925, 
and transported from the State of Colorado into the State of Utah, and charg- 
ing misbranding in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled 
in part:  " Golden Brand Meat Scraps, Protein 50 per cent."
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the 
statement " Protein 50 per cent," borne on the label, was false and mislead- 
ing and deceived and misled the purchaser, in that the .product was deficient 
in protein.
On February 15, 1926, the Colorado Animal By-Products Co., Denver, Colo., 
having appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the allega- 
tions of the libel, an order was entered, providing for release of the product, 
the product to be relabeled under the supervision of this department upon the 
execution of a bond in the sum of $500, in conformity with section 10 of the 
act. On April 1, 1926, the claimant having paid the costs of the proceedings 
and the product having been relabeled to show the correct protein content, a 
decree was entered by the court, adjudging the product to be misbranded and 
ordering that it be released from the operation of the libel and the bond 
exonerated.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.