3856. Adulteration of flour.    U. S. v. 8 Sacks of Flour (and 12 additional seizure
actions against flour). Decrees of condemnation. Portions of product 
ordered released under "bond to be denatured and disposed of as animal 
feed. Remainder ordered destroyed or denatured. (F. D. G. Nos. 7813, 
78397 7899, 7937, 7991, 8055, 8056, 8257 to 8260, incl., 8332, 8381. Sample Nos; 
82106-B, 82108-B, 8910-F, 8911-F, 8912-F, 8914-F, 89.16-F, 17830-F, 28114-F, 
28602-F, 28608-F, 28609-F, 28618-F, 28623-F.)
Between July 1 and September 18, 1942, the United States attorneys for the 
Southern District of Florida, Southern District of Texas, and the Eastern District 
of New York filed libels against 22 98-pound sacks of flour at Miami, Fla., 227 
5-pound sacks and 372 98-pound sacks of flour at Jacksonville, Fla., 29 98-pound 
sacks of flour at Orlando, Fla., 8 98-pound sacks and 4 48-pound sacks at Tampa, 
Fla., 20 98-pound sacks of flour at Sanford, Fla., 116 98-pound sacks of flour at 
Houston, Tex., and 6 140-pound sacks of flour at Brooklyn, N, Y., alleging that 
the article had been shipped in interstate commerce within the period from on 
or about January 8,1942, to on or about July 15,1942, by the Pillsbury Flour Mills 
Co. from Memphis, Tenn., Enid, Okla., Springfield, Ill., Minneapolis, Minn., and 
Ogden, Utah; and charging that it was adulterated. The article was labeled in 
part: "Pillsbury's Hotel and Restaurant H R Flour Bleached General Purpose"; 
"Pillsbury's Best XXX All-Purpose Enriched Phosphated Flour Bleached"; 
"Old Mill Flour Bleached"; "Pillsbury's Pure [or "Medium"] Dark Rye Flour"; 
"Pillsbury's Special Medium Rye Flour"; "Pillsbury's Whole Wheat (fine ground) 
Flour"; "Pillsbury's Pure White Rye Flour"; or "Pillsbury's Picrust Flour 
Bleached."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy substance;
On August 10 and October 8,1942, C. W. Zaring and Co., Jacksonville, Fla., and 
J. Weingartner, Inc., Houston, Tex., having appeared as claimants, respectively, 
for 372 sacks of flour at Jacksonville and 51 sacks at Houston, judgments of con- 
demnation were entered and the product covered by the seizures was ordered 
released under bond to be denatured and disposed of as animal feed. Between 
August 8, 1942, and January 6,1943, no claimant having appeared for the remain- 
ing 11 lots, judgments of condemnation were entered and the flour located at 
Houston was ordered delivered to individuals to be denatured at their own expense 
under the supervision of the Food and Drug Administration and disposed of as 
animal feed and the remaining lots were ordered destroyed.