26047. Adulteration and misbranding of ground coffee screenings.     U. S. v. 10
Bags of Ground Coffee Screenings. Default decree of condemnation 
and destruction.    (F. & D. no. 37488.    Sample no. 68172-B.)
This case involved a shipment of ground coffee screenings that were found to 
contain coffee chaff. 
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On May 6, 1936," the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Ohio, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 10 bags of ground coffee 
screenings at Portsmouth, Ohio, consigned on or about February 8, 1936, alleg- 
ing that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce by Alexander 
Moseley, from Chicago, Ill., and charging adulteration and misbranding in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act as amended. The article was labeled in 
part: "No. 1 Ground Coffee Screenings."
The article was alleged to be adultered in that coffee chaff had been 
mixed and packed with the article so as to reduce its quality or strength; and 
in that coffee chaff had been substituted wholly or in part for coffee screenings, 
which the article purported to be.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that the designation "Coffee 
Screenings" was false and misleading and tended to deceive and mislead the 
purchaser when applied to a product containing coffee chaff; and in that it 
was offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article, namely, 
coffee screenings.
On May 19, 1936, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
W. R. GEEGQ, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.