29314. Adulteration of flour.    U. S. v. 105 Sacks and 140 Sacks of Flour.    Con¬
sent decrees of condemnation. Product released under bond condi- 
tioned that unfit portion be denatured or destroyed. (F. & D. Nos. 
40483, 40560.    Sample Nos. 37744-C, 37755-C.)
Samples of this product were found to be insect-infested. A portion of the 
sacks failed to bear a statement of the quantity of contents.
On October 14 and 23, 1937, the United States attorney for the Eastern Dis- 
trict of New York, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 245 sacks of 
flour at Brooklyn, N. Y.; alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about June 11 and July-21, 1937, from Fostoria, Ohio, by 
Manuel Milling Co.; and charging that a portion was adulterated and the 
remainder was misbranded in violation of the Food and Drugs Act as amended. 
The article was labeled in part "The Mennel Milling Company."
One lot was alleged to be adulterated in that it was insect-infested.
The remaining lot was alleged to be misbranded in that it was food in pack- 
age form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously 
marked on the outside of the package, since no quantity was stated.
On January 24, 1938, Leopold. Gross, Inc., New York, N. Y., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libels and having consented to the entry of 
decrees, judgments of condemnation were entered, and the product was ordered 
released under bond conditioned that both lots be segregated, the good from 
the bad, and that the latter be destroyed or denatured so that it could not 
be disposed of for human consumption.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.