22572. Adulteration   and misbranding of   bone   meal.    17.   S.   v.   Riverdale
Products Co. Plea of guilty. Fine, $25. (F. & D. no. 31355. Sample 
no. 19176-A.)
This case was based on a shipment of bone meal that contained less bone phos- 
phate of lime, less protein, less fat, and more fiber than declared on the label, 
and also contained undeclared calcium carbonate.
On January 3, 1934, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court an information against the Riverdale Products Co., a corporation,
Chicago, Ill., alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act, on or about July 7, 1932, from the State of Illinois into the State of 
Indiana, of a quantity of bone meal which was adulterated and misbranded. 
Attached to the sacks containing the article were two tags, both labeled, 
" Steamed Bone Meal, Manufactured by Riverdale Products Company, Chicago." 
Further statements regarding the ingredients, also appearing on the tags, are 
set out below.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that an added 
substance, calcium carbonate in excess of the normal amount contained in bone 
meal, had been substituted in part for the article. Adulteration was alleged 
for the further reason that a product containing less than 5 percent of crude 
protein, less than 1% percent of crude fat, less than 70 percent of bone phos- 
phate of lime and more than 2 percent of crude fiber and more than the normal 
amount of calcium carbonate contained in bone meal, had been substituted for 
bone meal containing not less than 5 percent of crude protein, not less than it 
percent of crude fat, not less than 70 percent of bone phosphate of lime, and 
not more than the normal amount of calcium carbonate contained in bone meal, 
and not more than 2 percent of crude fiber, which the article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement, "Bone Meal, 
Ingredients: Bone Meal, Analysis: Guaranteed 5 Per Cent Max. Crude Pro- 
tein, 1% Per Cent Max. Crude Fat, 70 Per Cent Min. Bone Phosphate of 
Lime ", borne on one of the tags, and the statements, " Bone Meal Guaranteed 
Analysis Crude Protein, not less than 5.0% Crude Fat, not less than 1.5% 
Crude Fiber, not more than 2.0%, Ingredients: Bone Meal containing 70% 
Bone Phosphate of Lime ", borne on the other tag, were false and misleading, 
and for the further reason that the article was labeled as aforesaid so as 
to deceive and mislead the purchaser, since it contained less than 5 percent 
of crude protein, less than 1% percent of crude fat, less than 70 percent of 
bone phosphate of lime, more than 2 percent of crude fiber, and contained 
undeclared calcium carbonate in excess of the normal amount contained in 
bone meal.
On May 17, 1934, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.