4931. Adulteration of popcorn.    U. S. v.  205 Bags of Shelled Popcorn.    Default decree  of
condemnation.   Product ordered delivered to a welfare organization for use as animal 
feed.    (F. D. C. No. 9507.    Sample No. 24834-F.)
This product was' stored under insanitary conditions after shipment in interstate 
commerce. Practically every bag in the pile bore evidence of rodent contamination by 
the presence pf excreta pellets and urine stains, and a number of the bags had been 
gnawed by rodents.  Rodent hairs were found on the popcorn in the bags.
On or about March 15, 1943, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Virginia filed a libel against 205 ,bags of shelled popcorn in the possession of the 
Roanoke Public Warehouse at Roanoke, Va., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce on or about January 18, 1943, from Evansville, Ind.; 
and charging that it was adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in part of filthy 
substances, rodent hairs, and'in,that it had been held under insanitary conditions 
whereby it may have become contaminated with filth.
On August 18, 1943, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation was 
entered and the product was ordered delivered to a welfare organization for use as 
animal feed, and hot for human eorisumption.