5280. Adulteration of flour.    U. S. v. 18 Bags and 100 Bags of Flour.    Decrees
of condemnation. One -lot ordered destroyed; remaining lot released 
under bond for denaturing and use as animal feed. (F. D. C. Nos. 10386, 
10422.   Sample Nos. 35206-F, 35216-F, 35217-F.)
On or about August 10 and 17,1943, the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of Florida filed libels against a total of 118 bags of flour at Tampa, Fla., 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce from on or 
about May 8 to June 10, 1943, by the Pillsbury Flour Mills Co., from Memphis, 
Tenn., and Enid, Okla.; and charging that it was adulterated in that it consisted 
in whole or in part of filthy substances, weevils, larvae, and cast skins.s The 
article was labeled in part: "Pillsbury's Pure Dark Bye Flour," or "Pillsbury's 
H and B Hotel and Restaurant Flour Bleached General Purpose ["98" or "100 Lbs. 
Net"]."
On September 8, 1943, no claimant having appeared for the lot consisting of 
18 bags of flour, judgment of condemnation was entered and the product was 
ordered destroyed. On September 14, 1943, the-Columbia Baking Co. of Atlanta, 
Ga., trading at Tampa, Fla., under the name Seybold Baking Co., having appeared 
as claimant for the lot consisting of 100 bags of flour, and having admitted 
the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered and the 
product was ordered released under bond to be denatured under supervision of 
the Food and Drug Administration and disposed of as animal feed.