14892. Misbranding of cottonseed meal.    17.  S. v.  100 Sacks  of Cottonseed
Meal.    Consent decree adjudging: product misbranded and order- 
ing Its release under bond.     (F. & D. No. 21541.    I. S. No. 15430-x.
S. No. C-5312.)
On January 25, 1927, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
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 100 sacks of cottonseed meal, at Humboldt, Nebr., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Planters .Cottonseed Products Co., from Dallas, Tex., 
on or about January 14, 1927, and transported from the State of Texas into the 
State of Nebraska, and charging misbranding in violation of the food and 
drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " Goldenrod Cotton Seed Meal 
Manufactured by Planters Cottonseed Products Company Dallas, Texas 
Guaranteed Analysis: Crude Protein not less than 43.00 Per Cent."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded, in that the state- 
ment " Crude Protein not less than 43.00 Per Cent," borne on the label, was 
false and misleading and deceived and misled the purchaser.
On February 9, 1927, the Planters Cottonseed Products Co., Dallas, Tex., 
claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel, and having consented to 
the condemnation and forfeiture of the property, a decree was entered, finding 
the product misbranded, 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 $1,000, conditioned in part that it be 
relabeled, " Crude protein not less than 41 per cent."
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.