17729. Adulteration of corn flour.     U. S. v. 64 Barrels of Corn Flour.     Con 
sent  decree  of   condemnation   and  forfeiture.    Product   released 
under bond.     (F. & D. No. 25174.    I. S. Nos. 7624, 14031.    S. No. 3438.)
Samples of corn flour from the herein described interstate shipment having 
been found to contain worms, beetles, excreta, web, and mold, the Secretary 
of Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney for the 
Northern District of Illinois.
On or about October 1, 1930, the said United States attorney filed in the 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 64 barrels of corn flour, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by Armour & Co., from South Omaha, Nebr., September 12, 1930, and had been 
transported from the State of Nebraska into the State of Illinois, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy, putrid, and decomposed vegetable substance.
On October 14, 1930, the Independent Casing Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry 
of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant to be 
resifted under the supervision of this department, upon payment of costs and 
the execution of a bond in the sum of $2,000, conditioned in part that it should 
not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to law.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.