29655. Adulteration of flour.    TJ. S. v. 18 Bags and 498 Bags of Flour.    Default
decrees of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. Nos. 43593, 44025. 
Sample Nos. 9188-D, 38445-D.)
This product having been shipped in interstate commerce and remaining 
unsold and in the original packages, was at the time of examination found to be 
insect-infested.
On August 31 and on or about September 28, 1938, the United States attorneys 
for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the Southern District of Texas, acting 
upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in their respective district 
courts libels praying seizure and condemnation of 18 bags of rye flour at Little 
Rock, Ark., and 498 bags of flour at Houston, Tex.; alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Pillsbury Flour Mills Co., in part on or about June 15, 
1938, from Portland, Oreg., and in part on or about July 9, 1938, from Spring- 
field, Ill. and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. 
The article was labeled in part: "Pillsbury's Artex Dark Rye Flour," or "Pills- 
bury Blue Top Flour."
It was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in part of a 
filthy vegetable substance.
On September 30 and October 28, 1938, no claimant having appeared, judg- 
ments of condemnation were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.