3202. Adulteration of candy.   IT. S. v. 21 Boxes and 8 Boxes of Candy (and 3 other
seizure actions against candy). Default decrees of condemnation and 
destruction. (F. D. C. Nos. 6308, 6348, 6349, 7476. Sample Nos. 56746-E to 
56752-E, incl. 61927-E.)
Examination showed that this product was contaminated with filth, such as 
rodent hairs, human hairs, insect fragments, and metal fragments.
Between November 28, 1941, and May 7, 1942, the United States attorneys for 
the District of New Jersey and the District of Oregon filed libels against 94 
boxes of candy at Newark, and 53 boxes of candy.at Union City, N. J., and 45 
eases of candy at- Portland, Oreg., alleging that the article had- been shipped in 
interstate commerce within the period from on or about July 2, 1941, to on or 
about April 13, 1942, by Euclid Candy Co. from San Francisco, Calif.; and Euclid 
Candy Co. of N, Y., Inc., from Brooklyn, N. Y., and charging that it was, adulter- 
ated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance; and in that'It 
had'been prepared under insanitary conditions whereby it might have become 
contaminated with filth. The, article was labeled, in part; "48's .Sambo" .;, "Dolly 
Dimple Home-Made Fudge Bars"; "Kitchen:Made ;Fudge Cocoanut"; "Euclid's 
Penny Love Nest"; or."Euclid's.Red Cap." '¦-...•.'...:,..¦•,:.;„.;..;
On March 2 and June 12, 1942, no claimant having appeared, judgments of 
condemnation were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.