20184. Adulteration and Misbranding of rye flour.    U.S.  v.  294 Sacks  of
Flour. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product 
released under bond to be relabeled. (F. & D. no. 28878. Sample no. 
10880-A.)
This action involved the shipment of a quantity of rye flour which had been 
bleached and which was not properly labeled to indicate that it was bleached 
flour.
On September 14, 1932, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel 
praying seizure and condemnation of 294 sacks of flour at New York, N.Y., 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce, on or about 
August 13, 1932, by the Christian Mills, Inc., from Hastings, Minn., to New 
York, N.Y., and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: " Christian's Pure 
White Rye Flour Christian Mills   *    *    *   Minneapolis, Minn."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance, artificially bleached rye flour, had been substituted for white rye 
flour.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement on the label, 
" Pure White Rye Flour ", was false and misleading and deceived and misled 
purchasers, when applied to an artificially bleached flour. Misbranding was 
alleged for the further reason that the article was offered for sale under the 
distinctive name of another article.
A claim was interposed for the property through J. A. Lenhardt, Inc., agent 
for claimant, who admitted the allegations of the libel and consented to the 
entry of a decree. On September 28, 1932, judgment of condemnation and for- 
feiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be re- 
leased to the claimant upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond 
in the sum of $1,000, conditioned in part that it be conspicuously labeled, 
" Bleached with Chlorine ", and should not be disposed of except in compliance 
with the law, State and Federal.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.