5122. Adulteration of flour.    U. S. v. 112 Bags of Wheat Flour.    Consent decree
of condemnation.   Product ordered released under bond for denaturing.
(F. D. C. No. 9751.   Sample No. 23255-F.)
This product was stored under insanitary conditions. Mouse pellets-were 
found on all the bags. Some bags had been gnawed by mice and contained 
urine stains, and flour removed from a gnawed bag was found to contain a large 
number of rodent pellets.
On or-about April 7, 1943, the United States attorney for the District of New 
Jersey filed a libel against 112 bags of wheat flour at Trenton, N. J.,'in the 
possession of the Original Trenton Cracker Co., alleging that the article had 
been shipped in interstate commerce on or about October 22, 1942, from Buffalo, 
N. Y.; and charging that it was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of filthy substances, mouse pellets and urine-stained flour, and in that it 
had been held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become con- 
taminated with filth.
, On June 23,1943, Christopher Cartlidge, trading as the Original Trenton Cracker 
Co., having appeared as claimant and having admitted the allegations of the 
libel and consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation was : 
entered and the product was ordered released under bond for denaturing under 
the supervision of the Food & Drug Administration, so that it could not be used 
for human consumption.