14394.  Misbranding of cottonseed  meal.    IT.  S.  v.  82  Sacks of Cottonseed 
meal.     Decree entered, adjudging product misbranded and ordov 
ins   its   release   nnder   bond.     (F.   &   D.   No.   20799.    I.   S.   No    3671*
S. No. W-1856.) 
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On February 2, 1926, the United States attorney for the District of Colorado 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and condemnation 
of 82 sacks of cottonseed meal, consigned by the Vernon Cotton Oil Co., Vernon, 
Tex., alleging that the article had been shipped from Vernon, Tex., on or 
about December 29, 1925, and transported from the State of Texas into the 
State of Colorado, and charging misbranding in violation of the food and 
drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " Crude Protein not less than 
43.00 Per Cent." 
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the 
statement "Crude Protein not less than 43.00 Per Cent," borne on the label, 
was false and misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser, since the 
-article did not contain 43 per cent of crude protein.
On March 11, 1926, the Vernon Cotton Oil Co., Vernon, Tex., having appeared 
as claimant for the property, a decree was entered, finding the product mis- 
labeled in violation of the said act, and it was ordered by the court that the 
said product be released to the claimant upon payment of the costs of the 
proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $346.40, conditioned 
in part that it not be sold or disposed of until relabeled to show the correct 
?contents. 
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W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.