177. Adulteration of flour.     U. S. v.  Seven  98-pound Bags and Forty-four 48-
pound Bag-s of Flour (and 3 other seizure actions against a similar prod- 
uct). Consent decree of condemnation. Product ordered released under 
bond.     (F. D. C. Nos. 741, 742, 773.    Sample Nos. 47850-D, 47851-D, 47852-D.)
On October 17 and 20, 1939, the United States attorney for the Eastern Dis- 
trict of North Carolina filed libels against 181 bags of flour at Zebulon, N. C, 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce within the 
period from March 30 to June 7, 1939, in various lots and by several shippers 
as follows: Seven 98-pound bags and forty-four 48-pound bags of flour by Buena 
Vista Mills from Buena Vista, Va.; 50 bags of flour by Bowersock Mills & Power 
Co. from Lawrence, Kans.; and forty 98-pound bags and thirty-two 48-pound
bags of flour by Shenandoah Milling Co. from Norfolk, Va.; and charging that 
it was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance. 
It was variously labeled in part: "Hot Supper Self-Rising Flour"; "Choice- 
Select Wheat BM Cream Flour"; and "Shenandoah Belle Superlative Patent 
Winter Wheat Flour."
On November 27, 1939, the Page Supply Co., Inc., Zebulon, N. C., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libels and the cases having been con- 
solidated, judgment of condemnation was entered ordering release of the product 
under bond, conditioned that it be denatured and relabeled to show such fact 
and disposed of for swine feed.