10529. Adulteration of corn flour, peanut cake meal, and barley malt.    IT. S. v.
11,200 Bags    *    *    *     (and 3 other seizure actions).    (F.  D.  C.  Nos.
17609 to 17612, incl.    Sample Nos. 8001-H to 8020-H, incl.)
LIBELS FILED :    September 27, 1945, Eastern District of New York.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT: Between the approximate dates of August 24, 1944, and 
June 15, 1945, from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Suffolk, Va., Chicago, Ill., and Mil- 
waukee, Wis.
PRODUCT: 16,000 bags of corn flour, 600 bags of peanut cake meal, and 857 bags 
of barley malt at Staten Island, N. Y., in possession of the Riveredge Ware- 
house Corporation. The products were stored under insanitary conditions 
after shipment. Many of the bags were rodent-gnawed, and rodent pellets and 
urine stains were observed on them. Examination showed that the products 
contained rodent excreta.
NATUEB OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3),'the products 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 : October 10, 1945. The cases having been consolidated, and Wal- 
lerstein Co., Inc., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libels, judg- 
ment of condemnation was entered and it was ordered that the products be
released under bond, conditioned that the unfit portions of the corn flour and 
barley malt be segregated and used in the manufacture of alcohol, and the 
residue denatured for animal feed or technical uses; that the peanut cake meal 
be processed for manufacture of an enzymatic desizing agent used in the tex- 
tile trade, and the residue disposed of for fertilizer, or destroyed; 'and that 
the Food and Drug Administration exercise supervision over the carrying out 
of the conditions of the decree.