5624. Adulteration of mixed wheat and'corn flour.    U. S. v, 22 Bags and 136 Bags
of Flour.    Default decree of condemnation and destruction.     (F. D. C.
No. 12265.    Sample Nos. 79504-F, 79505-F.)
This product was stored, after shipment, under insanitary conditions. The 
bags had been tunneled by rodents, and examination of samples showed that 
the product was contaminated with rodent excreta and rodent hairs, and that 
it also contained insects, larvae, and insect fragments.
On April 25, 1944, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia 
filed a libel against 158 bags, each containing 100 pounds, of flour at Washington, 
D. C, alleging that the article, which had been shipped from Milwaukee, Wis., 
was in the possession of H. M. Wagner & Co., Washington, D. C, and was in 
interstate commerce; and charging that it was adulterated in that it consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy substance, and in that it had been held under 
insanitary conditions whereby it might have become contaminated with filth.
On June 27, 1944, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.