16603. Action to enjoin and restrain the interstate shipment of buckwheat flour
and corn meal.   U. S. v. Stuart Roser.   Consent decree granting in- 
junction.    (Injunction No. 223).
COMPLAINT FILED: January 27, 1950, District of Maryland, against Stuart 
Roser, Parkton, Md.
NATURE OF CHARGE : That the defendant had been, and was at the time, in- 
troducing and delivering for introduction into interstate commerce, at Park-
ton, Md., buckwheat flour and corn meal which were adulterated in the fol- 
lowing respects: Section 402 (a) (3), the products consisted in part of filthy 
substances, such as insects, insect fragments, rodent hair fragments, and 
rodent excreta pellets; and, Section 402 (a) (4), the products hadbeen, and 
were still being, prepared and packed under insanitary conditions whereby 
they may have become contaminated with filth.
The complaint alleged further that the insanitary conditions in the de- 
fendant's plant arose out of the presence of rodents and insects in and around 
grain, machinery, and equipment used for preparing and packing the products, 
and the presence of rodent pellets and insects in other parts of the plant 
where the products were prepared and packed; and that the defendant still 
continued to introduce into interstate commerce, shipments of adulterated 
buckwheat flour and corn meal, and would continue to ship such products un- 
less enjoined from so doing.
DISPOSITION : January 27, 1950. The defendant having consented to the entry 
of a decree, the court issued an order perpetually enjoining the defendant 
from introducing and delivering for introduction into interstate commerce, 
buckwheat flour and corn meal adulterated as alleged in the complaint.