2605. Adulteration of flour.     IT.   S.  v.  215   Bags  of  Flour.     Consent  decree  of
condemnation.     Produet ordered released under bond to be denatured.
(F. D. C. No. 5610.   Sample No. 67409-E.)
On September 2, 1941, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Arkansas filed a libel (amended September 10, 1941) against 215 140-pound bags 
of flour at North Little Rock, Ark., alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce on or about May 1,-1941, by Enns Milling Co. from Inman, 
Kans.; and charging that it was adulterated in that it consisted in whole and/or 
in part of a filthy, putrid, and decomposed substance and was otherwise unfit 
for food; and in that it had been held under insanitary conditions whereby it 
might have become contaminated with filth.
On September 29, 1941, Pillsbury Flour Mills Co.. Minneapolis, Minn., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was en- 
tered and the product was ordered released under bond to be denatured under 
the supervision of the Food and Drug Administration so that it could not be used 
for human consumption.