4545. Adulteration of Matzos, Matzos meal, and cracker meal.    U. S. v. 24 Cases
of Matzos (and 3 other seizures of similar products). Default decrees 
of condemnation and destruction. (F. D. C. Nos. 9803, 9804, 9844, 9876. 
Sample Nos. 23269-F to 23271-F, incl., 24800-F, 28947-F, 32507-F to 32509-F, 
incl.)
These products .contained insect fragments, rodent hair fragments, larvae, hair 
fragments resembling rodent hairs, and rodent excreta.
On or about April 17, 19, 27, and May 1, 1943, the United States attorneys 
for the Northern District of Georgia, the District of New Jersey, the Eastern 
District of Virginia, and the Northern District of Ohio, filed libels against 24 
cases, each containing 36 packages, and 174 separate packages of Matzos, 9 
cases, each containing 24 packages, and 140 separate packages of Matzo meal, 
and 60 cases, each containing 24 packages, of cracker meal in various lots at 
Atlanta, Ga., Norma, N. J., Camp Pendleton, Va., and Cleveland, Ohio, alleging 
that the articles had been shipped in interstate commerce within the period from 
on oi? about March 18 to April 6, 1943, by B. C. Friedman & Co., from Phila- 
delphia, Pa.; and charging that they were adulterated in that they consisted in 
whole or in part of filthy substances, and in that they had been prepared under 
insanitary conditions whereby they may have become contaminated with filth. 
The articles were labeled in part: "Matzos," "Matzo Meal," or "Philadelphia 
Cracker Meal '.*   *   *   Philadelphia Cracker Meal Company, Philadelphia, Pa."
On May 11 and 29, and June 18 and 23, 1943, no claimant having appeared, 
judgments of condemnation were entered and the products were ordered de- 
stroyed.