996. Adulteration of rye, plain, and cake flour.     U. S. v. 37 Sacks of Flour (and
2 other seizure actions involving flour). Default decrees of condemnation 
and destruction. (F. D. C. Nos. 2993, 3098, 3391. Sample Nos. 11122-E, 
33610-E, 32284-E.)
Within the period from September 17 to November 19, 1940, the United States 
attorneys for the Southern District of Texas, the District of New Jersey, and 
the District of Arizona filed libels against 37 sacks of rye flour at Houston, 
Tex.; 45 bags of flour at Newark, N. J.; and 12 cases of cake flour at Tucson, 
Ariz., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce within 
the period from on or about January 3, 1939, to on or about August 14, 1940, 
by the Pillsbury Flour Mills Co. from Enid, Okla., and Buffalo, N..Y.; and charg-
ing that it was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy 
substance. It was variously labeled: "Pillsbury's Pure Dark Rye Flour" ; "Pills- 
bury's Kanabec Flour Bleached"; and "Pillbury's Sno Sheen Cake Flour 
Bleached."
On November 27 and December 26, 1940, and January 14, 1941, no claimant 
having appeared, judgments of condemnation were entered and the product 
was ordered destroyed.