NOTICE  OF  JUDGMENT  NO. 2097.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
MISBRANDING  OF BICE.
On February-28, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 75 bags of rice 
remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and in posses- 
sion of the H. T. Hackney Co. (Inc.), Jellico, Tenn., alleging that the 
product had been shipped on or about January 31, 1912, by the 
John S. Talmage Co. (Ltd.), New Orleans, La., and transported from 
the State of Louisiana into the State of Tennessee, and charging mis- 
branding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. Fifty bags of the 
product were labeled: "100 lbs. Domestic Honduras head rice 
coated with glucose and talc, remove by washing before using. 
2084."
Misbranding of this portion of the product was alleged in the libel 
for the reason that the brand thereon was false and misleading, in 
that the product consisted of broken grains or screenings and not 
head rice. Twenty-five bags of the product were labeled: "Fancy 
Head 100 lbs. net rice, coated with glucose and talc, remove by 
washing before using. Domestic elk." Misbranding of this portion 
of the product was alleged for the reason that said label was false 
and misleading, in that the product consisted of a mixture of head 
rice and broken grains or screenings and did not consist of fancy 
head rice.
On April 12, 1912, the said John S. Talmage Co. (Ltd.), claimant, 
having consented thereto, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture 
was entered and it was further ordered that the product should be 
released and delivered to said claimant upon payment of the costs 
of the proceeding and the execution of bond in the sum of $250 in 
conformity with section 10 of the Act.
W. M. HATS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 11, 1912.
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