12747. Adulteration of mustard flour.    U. S. v. 131 Barrels    *    *    *.     (F. D. C.
No. 22509.    Sample No. 62834-H.)
LIBEL FILED :   February 19,1947, Northern District of California.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT :   On or about December 27, 1946, from Philadelphia, Pa.
PRODUCT: 131 200-pound barrels of mustard flour at San Francisco, Calif. The 
product had been damaged in transit. Some of the barrel heads had been 
broken in or smashed, and the product in these barrels was contaminated with 
a substance containing zinc chromate, apparently a yellow pigment.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (1), the article contained an 
added poisonous and deleterious substance, zinc chromate, which may have 
rendered it injurious to health.
DISPOSITION : May 2,1947. The Luckenbach Steamship Company, Inc., claimant, 
having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation was 
entered and the product was ordered released upon payment of court costs and 
fees, to be brought into compliance with the law, under the supervision of the 
Federal Security Agency.