3413. Adulteration of  sugar.     U.   S.  v. 25  Sacks of   Sugar.     Default decree  of
destruction.    (F. D. C. No. 4730.   Sample No. 4341-8-E.)
This product had been stored under insanitary conditions after shipment 
and when examined it was found that the sacks had been torn and gnawed by 
rats and contained an accumulation of rat pellets and bird droppings.
On May 15, 1941, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Missouri .filed a libel against 25 100-pound sacks of sugar at'Kansas City,- Mo., 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about 
October 31, 1941, from Lyman, Nebr.; and charging that it was adulterated in 
that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance and in that it had been 
held under insanitary conditions whereby it might 'have become contaminated 
with filth. It was alleged further that the article had been shipped by the 
Great Western Sugar Co., but that adulteration resulted from conditions exist- 
ing at detsinatiO n, in the warehouse of the consignee.
On June 27, 1941, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation was 
entered and the product was ordered destroyed.