3073.?Adulteration of wheat bran.   U. S. v. 400 Sacks Soft Winter Wheat Bran.   Default
decree of condemnation and forfeiture.   Product ordered sold.   (F. & D. No. 5162.?
S. No. 1769.)
On April 17, 1913, the United States attorney for the Middle District of Pennsyl??
vania, 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 400?
sacks, each containing 100 pounds of a product purporting to be soft winter wheat?
bran, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and in possession of the?
Cumberland Valley Railroad, Dillsburg, Pa., alleging that the product had been?
shipped on or about December 25, 1912, to Bernet Kraft & Kaufman Mill Co., notify?
Jonas F. Ebey & Son, Lancaster, Pa., and transported from the State of Missouri?
into the State of Pennsylvania, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food?
and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason that it was shipped?
as wheat bran, thereby indicating and publishing and intending thereby to publish?
and declare that the contents of each sack was wheat bran, whereas, in truth and in?
, fact, it was not such genuine wheat bran, but contained 26.47 per cent of foreign matter,?
consisting almost entirely of wheat screenings which had been mixed and packed?
with and substituted for wheat bran so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its?
quality and strength.
On May 8,1913, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of condem??
nation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product?
should be sold by the United States marshal.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 14, 1914-