20019. Adulteration of cane sugar, brown sugar, and tapioca flour.   U. S. v. 55
Bags, etc. (F. D. C. Nos. 33233, 33256. Sample Nos. 36957-L, 36962-L, 
37266-L, 38598-L.)
LIBELS FILED :    May 5 and 16,1952, Eastern District of New York.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT : The products were imported from Peru and Brazil on 
unknown dates.
PRODUCT: 55 110-pound bags of cane sugar, 15 200-pound bags of brown sugar, 
and 27 100-pound bags of tapioca flour at Brooklyn, N. Y., in the possession of 
Beard's Erie Basin, Inc.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), the products consisted 
in whole or in part of filthy substances by reason of the presence of insects 
in the cane sugar, rodent urine, rodent hairs, and insect fragments in the 
brown sugar, and rodent excreta and rodent urine in the tapioca flour; and, 
Section 402 (a) (4), they had been held under insanitary conditions whereby 
they may have become contaminated with filth. The products were adulterated 
while held for sale after shipment in interstate commerce.
DISPOSITION : September 18, 1952. The Kaufman & Vinson Co., New York, 
N. Y., having appeared as claimant and the cases having been consolidated, 
judgment of condemnation was entered and the court ordered that the products 
he released under bond, conditioned that the cane sugar and the brown sugar 
be re-refined and that the tapioca flour be used in the manufacture of adhesive, 
under the supervision of the Food and Drug Administration.
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