9026. Adulteration of flour.    U. S. v. 19 Bags and 412 Bags of Flour.    Default
decrees of condemnation and destruction. (F. D. C. Nos. 15959, 15980. 
Sample Nos. 27439-H to 27442-H, incl.)
LIBELS FILED :   April 25 and May 5,1945, District of Oregon.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT : Between the approximate dates of November 24, 1944, and 
February 23,1945, from Seattle and Tacoma, Wash.
PRODUCT: 379 50-pound bags and 52 25-pound bags of flour at Medford, Oreg., 
in the possession of Mason, Ehrman and Co. The product was stored under 
insanitary conditions after shipment. Some of the bag's were rodent-gnawed, 
and rodent pellets and urine stains were observed on them. The product con- 
tained rodent excreta and rodent hairs.
NATURE or CHARGE: 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 may have become contaminated with 
filth.
DISPOSITION: June 23, 1945. No claimant having appeared, judgments of con- 
demnation were entered and the product was ordered destroyed.