6041.- Adulteration pf pastry flour. U, S. v. 250 Bass of Pastry Flour. Default 
decree of condemnation and destruction. (F. D. C. No. 12657. Sample 
No. 75826-F.)
LIBEL FILED :    June 9,1944, Western District of New York.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT:   Qn or about July 23 and 28,1943, from Chicago, Ill.
PRODUCT:   250   100-pound bags of pastry flour in possession  of Continental
Foods, Inc., Albion, N. Y. 
This flour was stored under insanitary conditions after shipment.   Some of
the bags had been gnawed by rodents, and rodent pellets and urine stains were
found on the bags.   Examination showed that the product contained rodent
excreta and rodent hairs.
VIOLATIONS CHARGED: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), the product consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy substance; and Section 402 (a) (4), it had been 
held under insanitary conditions whereby it might have become contaminated 
with filth.
DISPOSITION: July 20, 1944. No claimant having appeared, judgment of con- 
demnation was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.