9021. Adulteration of flour and cream meal.    U. S. v. 130 Bags of Flour and 606
Bags of Cream Meal. Default decrees of condemnation. Products or- 
dered delivered to a public institution. (F. D. C. Nos. 15986, 15987. Sam- 
ple Nos. 24426-H, 24427-H.)
pound bags of cream meal at Mobile, Ala., in the possession of the Merch. nts 
Supply Co. The products were stored under insanitary conditions. Somt of 
the bags were rodent-gnawed, and rodent excreta and urine stains were ob- 
served on them. The products had been contaminated with urine, and they 
contained rodent excreta. In addition, the cream meal contained weevils and 
larvae.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402: (a) (3), the articles consisted 
in whole or in part of filthy substances; and, Section 402 (a) (4), they had 
been held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have become con- 
taminated with filth.
DISPOSITION : July 24 and August 13, 1945. No claimant having appeared, judg- 
ments of condemnation were entered and the products were ordered delivered 
to a public institution, to be used for purposes other than human consumption.