19622. Adulteration of wheat.  U. S. v. 96,500 Pounds * * *.   (F. D. C No. 33427.
Sample No. 48548-L.) 
LIBEL FILED :   June 26,1952, District of Minnesota.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT : On or about June 2,1952, by the Amenia Seed & Grain Co., 
from Amenia, N. Dak.
PRODUCT:   96,500 pounds of wheat at Duluth, Minn.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (2), the article contained 
an added poisonous and deleterious substance, a mercurial compound, which 
is unsafe within the meaning of the law since it is a substance not required in 
the production of the article and can be avoided by good manufacturing prac- 
tice.
claimant, having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the court ordered that the product be released under bond, 
conditioned that it be reprocessed by distillation into industrial alcohol, under 
the supervision of the Federal Security Agency. On September 4, 1952, the 
deeree was amended to substitute the Farmers Union Grain Terminal Associa- 
tion, St. Paul, Minn., as claimant, and to permit reprocessing of the grain by 
scouring.
The wheat in the instant case and the wheat involved in the cases reported 
in notices of judgment Nos. 19619 to 19621, incl., and 19623 were commingled 
for purposes of the scouring operations. As a result of these operations, 8,720 
pounds of wheat were found unfit and were destroyed.