5428. Adulteration of flour.    V. S. v. 45 Bags of Flour.    Default decree of con¬
demnation.    Product ordered denatured for use as animal feed and de- 
livered to a county institution.    (F. D. C. No. 11007.    Sample No. 21928-F.)
On October 23, 1943, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Pennsylvania filed a libel against 45 bags of flour at Ambridge, Pa. This libel 
was subsequently amended. The amended libel alleged that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce on or about June 17, 1943, by the Washburn 
Crosby Co., Eastern Division of General Mills, from Buffalo, N. Y.; and charged 
that it was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of filthy sub-, 
stances by reason of the presence therein of insects, larvae, webbing, insect 
fragments, and iusect excreta. The article was labeled in part: "PurAsnow Vita- 
min & Iron Enriched Flour Bleached."
tion was entered and the product was ordered denatured for use as animal feed 
and delivered to a county institution.