7512. Adulteration of cheese  chips  and graham wafers.    TT.  S.  v.  The Laurel
Biscuit Co. Plea of guilty. Fine, $800 on 7 counts; fine of $800 on 
count 8 suspended. (F. D. C. No. 11421. Sample Nos. 46681-F to 46683-F, 
incl., 48745-F, 50214-F, 50215-F, 57447-F, 57448-F.)
INFORMATION FILED: August 7, 1944, Southern District of Ohio, against the 
Laurel Biscuit Co., a corporation, Dayton, Ohio.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT: Between the approximate dates of September 10 and 
November 2, 1943, from the State of Ohio into the States of Michigan, Penn- 
sylvania, New York, and Indiana.
LABEL IN PART:   "Laurel Graham Wafers [or "Cheese Chips"]."
VIOLATIONS CHARGED: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), the products con- 
sisted in whole or in part of filthy substances by reason of the presence of 
rodent hair fragments, hair fragments resembling rodent hairs, insect frag- 
ments, an insect head capsule, and an insect; and, Section 402 (a) (4), they 
had been prepared, packed, and held under insanitary conditions whereby they 
may have become contaminated with filth.
DISPOSITION : November 30, 1944. A plea of guilty having been entered, the 
defendant was fined $100 o each of the first 6 counts, $200 on count 7, and 
$800 on count 8. The fine on count 8 was suspended upon the condition that 
within 60 days the defendant remedy the situation existing at its plant.
FLOUR
Nos. 7513 to 7528 and 7531 to 7536 report actions involving flour that 
was contaminated with one or more of the following types of filth: Insects, 
insect fragments, larvae, cast skins, webbing, rodent hairs and hair fragments, 
rodent excreta, and urine. (In those cases in which the time of contamination 
is known that fact is stated in the notice of judgment.) In addition, the flour 
reported in Nos. 7529 and 7530 failed to meet the standard for enriched 
flour.