3834. Adulteration of sugar.    tJ. S. v. 210 and 7 Bags of Sugar.    Decree of con¬
demnation.    Product ordered released under bond to be re-refined.    (F. D.
C. No. 6614.   Sample No. 67949-E.)
This product had been stored under insanitary conditions after shipment. When 
examined the bags of sugar bore heavy deposits of both rat and mouse excreta at 
all points exposed to view, urine stains were visible on a number of exposed bags, 
and actual cutting by rodents had occurred. The floor area surrounding the sacks 
was thickly strewn by an accumulation of rat and mouse pellets and Other filth.
On or about December 29, 1941, the United States attorney for the Eastern 
District of Arkansas filed a libel against 210 100-pound bags and 7 10-pound bags 
of sugar in possession of Hurt Grocer Co. at Paragould, Ark., alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about June 9, July 3, and 
August 13,1941, from Sugar Land, Tex.; and charging that it was adulterated in 
that it consisted in whole and/or in part of a filthy and decomposed substance and 
was otherwise unfit for food. The article was labeled in part: "Imperial Cane 
Sugar."
On February 4,1942, the Hurt Grocer Co., claimant, having admitted the allega- 
tions of the libel, judgment of. condemnation was entered and the product was 
ordered released under bond conditioned that it be returned to the refinery and 
re-refihed under the supervision of the Food and Drug Administration.