9417. Adulteration of brewer's grits and flour. U. S. v. 757 Bags of Brewers - Grits (and 3 other seizure actions against flour). Decrees of condemna- tion. One lot ordered released under bond; two lots ordered used for animal feed: remaining lot ordered destroyed. (F. D. C. Nos. 17670, 18113, 18256, 18780. Sample Nos. 14206-H, 14560-H, 51012-H, 52604-H.) LIBELS FILED: September 25, October 31, and November 13, 1945, and January 4, ,1946, Southern District of Ohio, Southern District of Indiana, District of Minnesota, and Eastern District of Kentucky. ALLEGED SHIPMENT: Between the approximate dates of May 2 and August 18, 1945, by the International Milling Co., from Greenville, Tex., and New Prague and Minneapolis, Minn. PRODUCT: Brewer's grits: 757 100-pound bags at Cincinnati, Ohio. Flour: 28 10'0-pound bags, at Indianapolis, Ind., 69 100-pound bags at Frankfori, Ky., and 60 140-pound bags at St. Paul, Minn. LABEL IN PART : "Calla Lily [or "Red Dragon," or Seal of Minnesota"] Flour." NATURE OE CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402(a)(3), the products consisted in' whole or in part of filthy substances by reason of the presence of beetles, larvae, weevils, and insect fragments. DISPOSITION : November 9 and December 12, 1945, and February 26, 1946. The Clyffside Brewing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, claimant for the Cincinnati lot, and the International Milling Co., claimant for the Frankfort lot, having admitted the allegations of the libels ^gainst those lots, judgments of" condemnation were entered. The Cincinnati lot was ordered released under bond to be converted into stock feed, under the supervision of the Food and Drug Ad- ministration. The Frankfort lot having been sold for conversion into stock feed prior to the entry of a decree, the court ordered the proceeds from the sale paid into the court and the costs deducted and the balance paid to the claimant. No claimant having appeased for the remaining lots, judgments were entered ordering that the St. Paul lot be destroyed unless reprocessed and disposed of as animal feed, under the supervision of the Food and Drug Administration, and that the Indianapolis lot be forfeited and destroyed.