15702. Misbranding of cottonseed cake.    U. S. v. 520 Sacks of Cottonseed
Cake. Product adjudged misbranded and released under bond, 
to be relabeled.    (F. & D. No. 22284.    I. S. No. 23326-x.    S. No. 334.,)
On December 16, 1927, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel prayiug seizure 
and condemnation of 520 sacks of cottonseed cake, at Ringling, Okla., alleg- 
ing that the article had been shipped by the Traders Oil Mill Co., from Fort 
Worth, Texas, on or about December 3, 1927, and transported from the State 
of Texas into the State of Oklahoma, and charging misbranding in violation 
of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: "* * * 43 
per cent protein cracked Cottonseed Cake * * * Manufactured by Traders 
Oil Mill Co., Fort Worth, Texas, Guaranteed Analysis, Crude Protein, not less 
than 43 per cent."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the state- 
ments, " 43 per cent protein," and " Crude Protein not less than 43 per cent," 
borne on the label, were false and misleading and deceived and misled the 
purchaser.
On April 26, 1928, the product having been delivered to the claimant, the 
Traders Oil Mill Co., Fort Worth, Texas, under a bond in the sum of $2,500, 
to be relabeled, and the said product having been relabeled to show the pres- 
ence of 41 per cent of protein and to eliminate the words "43% protein," a 
decree was entered adjudging the product misbranded and ordering release of 
the buid bond.
R. W. DUNLAP, Actmg Secretary of Agriculture.