5273. Adulteration of flour.     U.  S. v. 1,198 Bags of Flour.    Default  decree of
condemnation and destruction.    (F. B.C. No. 10140.    Sample No. 22651-F.)
This product was stored under insanitary conditions after shipment in inter- 
state commerce. Many of the bags had been gnawed by rodents, rodent pellets 
and urine stains were observed on several of the bags, and samples taken from 
the flour were found to be contaminated with filth.
On June 24, 1943, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania filed a libel against 1,198 bags of flour at Philadelphia, Pa-, in the 
possession of the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., alleging that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce on or about May 13,1943, from Buffalo, N. Y.; and 
charging that it was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of filthy 
substances, rodent excreta, rodent hair fragments, and small pieces of chewed 
paper, and,in that it had been held under insanitary conditions,whereby it may 
have become contaminated with filth. The article was labeled in part: "Sunny- 
field Family Flour."
On July 12, 1943, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation was 
entered and the product was ordered destroyed.