5616. Adulteration of flour.    U. S. v. 43 Bags of Flour.    Default decree of con¬
demnation. Product ordered sold for stock feed. (F. D. C. No. 11856. 
Sample No. 61019-F.)
This product was stored under insanitary conditions after shipment. The 
bags were rodent-cut and contained urine stains and rodent excreta. Examina- 
tion showed that the product was contaminated with urine.
On February 21, 1944, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Alabama filed a libel against 43 bags of flour at Mobile, Ala., alleging that 
the article was shipped in interstate commerce on or about November 10, 1943, 
from Memphis, Tenn.,#and that it was in possession of the Merchants Transfer 
Co., Mobile, Ala.; and
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charging that it was adulterated in that it consisted in 
whole or in part of a filthy substance by reason of the presence therein of rodent 
urine, and in that it had been held under insanitary conditions whereby it might 
have become contaminated with filth.
On April 28, 1944, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered sold to be used for stock feed or some 
other suitable purpose, but not for human consumption.