13244. Adulteration of candy.    U. S. v. 55 Boxes    *    *     *.     (F. D. C. No. 24584.
Sample No. 18689-K.)
LIBEL FILED :    April 1,1948, Southern District of Ohio.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT :   On or about December 16, 1947, by the Whitson Candy Co.,
from Knoxville, Tenn. 
PRODUCT:    55 boxes, each containing 24   l1^-ounce sticks, of candy at Cincinnati,
Ohio. 
LABEL IN PART :    "Whitson's Old Fashioned Pure Sugar Stick Candy."
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), the product consisted in 
whole or in part of a filthy substance by reason of the presence of insect frag- 
ments and rodent hair fragments; and, Section 402 (a) (4), it had been pre- 
pared under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated 
with filth.
DISPOSITION :    June 4, 1948.   Default decree of condemnation and destruction.