17409. Adulteration of cane sugar.   U. S. v. 1,140 Bags   *    *    *.    (F. D. C. No.
30468.   Sample No. 94469-K.)
LIBEL FILED :    January 4,1951, Southern District of Alabama.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT:   On or about March 2, 1950, from Havana, Cuba.
PRODUCT:    1,140   100-pound bags of cane sugar at Mobile, Ala.
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 rodent 
excreta and rodent urine; and, Section 402 (-a-)~ (4), it had been held and 
stored under.insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated 
with filthy substances. The product was adulterated while held for sale after 
shipment in interstate commerce.
DISPOSITION: February 5, 1951. H. H. Pike & Co., Inc., New York, N. Y., 
claimant, having admitted that the product was adulterated, judgment of 
condemnation was entered and the court ordered that the product be released 
under bond to be segregated, salvaged, or re-refined, under the supervision of 
the Food and Drug Administration. It was sold on a raw sugar basis to a 
refinery.
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