6812. Adulteration and misbranding of enriched, phosphated flour.    U. S. v. 49
Boxes of Flour. Default decree of condemnation. Product ordered de- 
livered to charitable institutions. (F. D. C. No. 12772. Sample No. 
61345-F.)
LIBEL FILED:    June 27, 1944, Southern District of Texas.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT:    On or about March 12, 1944, by the Pillsbury Flour Mills
Co., from Enid, Okla. 
PRODUCT:    Flour;  49 boxes, each containing 25  2-pound bags, at Houston, Tex. 
LABEL IN PART:    (Bags)  "Pillsbury's Best XXX Bake-pro vend Ail-Purpose
Enriched Phosphated Flour Bleached."
VIOLATIONS CHARGED: Adulteration, Section 402 (b) (1), a valuable constituent, 
thiamine (vitamin B^, had been in part omitted from the product.
Misbranding, Section 403 (g) (1), the product failed to conform to the 
definition and standard for enriched flour since it contained approximately 1.33 
milligrams of thiamine (vitamin Bt) per pound, whereas the standard requires 
not less than 2.0 milligrams per pound; and, Section 403 (a), the label state- 
ments, "Enriched * * * Flour * * *," and "Contains not less than 
the following proportions of the minimum daily requirements Vitamin Bj 
100% * * * per 8 ounces of enriched * * * flour," were false and 
misleading as applied to the product, which failed to conform to the definition 
and standard for enriched flour and contained less than 100 percent of the 
minimum daily requirements of vitamin Bi per 8 ounces.
DISPOSITION: August 29, 1944. No claimant having appeared, judgment of con- 
demnation was entered and the product was ordered delivered to charitable 
'institutions.
Nos. 6813 to 6847 report actions involving flour that was contaminated with 
one or more of the following types of filth: Insects, insect fragments, insect excreta 
pellets, larvae, pupae, cast skins, webbing, rodent excreta, rodent hairs and hair 
fragments, and urine. (In those cases in which the time of contamination was 
known that fact is stated in the notice of judgment.)