13214. Action to enjoin and restrain the interstate shipment of bakery products.
U. S. v. David's Baking Co., Ine.    Consent decree granting injunction.
(Inc. No. 181.)
and delivering for introduction into interstate commerce, at Fall River, 
Mass., bread, rolls, and other baked food products, which were adulterated 
in the following respects:
Section 402 (a) (3), the products consisted in part of filthy substances, 
such as whole insects, large insect parts, insect fragments, part of a rodent, 
rodent hair fragments, and other filth; and, Section 402 (a) (4), they had 
been and were still being prepared and held under insanitary conditions 
whereby they may have become contaminated with filth.
The complaint alleged further that rodents, rodent excreta, beetles, other 
insects, and other filthy substances, such as larvae, insect webbing, and non- 
descript dirt, were present in and around the plant where the bakery products 
were being prepared and held, and in and around the equipment and raw 
materials used for preparing and holding the bakery products; that the 
presence of such filth contaminated the foods and subjected them to con- 
tamination by rodents and insects and their excreta and other filth; and that 
because of inadequate, insanitary toilet facilities in the plant and general 
carelessness on the part of the employees, the bakery products prepared and 
held therein were subject to contamination.
PRATER OF COMPLAINT : That the defendant be perpetually enjoined from com- 
mission of the acts complained of; and that a preliminary injunction be 
granted during the pendency of the action.
DISPOSITION: February 13, 1948. The defendant having consented to the 
entry of a decree, the court issued an order perpetually enjoining the defend- 
ants from shipping in interstate commerce any adulterated baked food product 
or food which would be prepared in the future at the Fall River, Mass., plant.