1223. Misbranding of spaghetti and macaroni.    U. S. v. 4 Cases of Spaghetti and
31 Cases of Macaroni.    Default decrees of condemnation and destruction.
(F. D. C. Nos. 2423, 2424.    Sample Nos. 15465-B, 15466-E.)
The spaghetti occupied on an average about 32 percent and the macaroni 
about 50 percent of the volume of the boxes in which they were packed.
On or about July 25, 1940, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Arkansas filed a libel against 4 cases of spaghetti and 31 cases of macaroni 
at Paragould, Ark., alleging that the articles had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about June 5, .1940, by Mercurio Bros. Spaghetti Manufacturing 
Co. from St. Louis, Mo.; and charging that they were misbranded in that their 
containers were so made, formed, or filled as to be misleading. The articles 
were labeled in part: (Boxes) "Big A Brand Spaghetti [or "Macaroni"]."
On October 22, 1940, no claimant having appeared, judgments of condemnation 
were entered and the products were ordered destroyed.