2586. Adulteration of flour.    XJ. S. v. 252 Bags and 180 Bags of Flour.    Decrees
of condemnation. Portion of product ordered released under bond to be 
reworked remainder ordered destroyed., (F. D. C. Nos. 5629, 5807^ Sample 
Nos. 48297-E to 48300-E, incl., 48901-E, 67472-E, 67473-E.)
On or about September 16 and on October 1, 1941, the United States attorneys 
for the Northern District of Georgia and the Eastern District of Arkansas 
filed libels against 173 24-pound bags and 79 48-pound bags of flour at Cornelia, 
Ga., and 138 24-pound bags and 42 48-pound bags of flour at Jonesboro, Ark., 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce within the 
period from on or about March 3 to on or about September 5, 1941, by Springs 
field Flour Mills from Springfield, Mo.; and charging that it was adulterated 
in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance. The article was 
labeled in part: (Bags) "Bleached Little Miss Flour"; "Bleached Puritan 
Flour"; "Bleached Fancy Short Patent Southern Lily Flour [or "Self Rising 
Flour"]"; or "Bleached Self-Rising Snow Crest Flour."
On September. 19, 1941, C. M. Miller Co., Inc., Cornelia, Ga., claimant for the 
product seized at Cornelia, having admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment 
of condemnation was entered and the product was ordered released under bond to 
be reconditioned under the supervision of the Food and Drug Administration;
subsequently it was denatured for use as a hog feed concentrate. On Decem- 
ber 16, 1941, no claimant having appeared for the seizure at Jonesboro, judgment 
of condemnation was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.