20505. Adulteration of flour!   U. S. v. Autry Greer & Sons, E. Sumner Greer,
J. Barton Greer, and Autry V. Greer. Pleas of guilty. Fine of $75 
against each defendant. (F. D. C. No. 34844. Sample Nos. 22218-L, 
22549-L,46228-L.)
INFORMATION FILED : June 4,1953, Southern District of Alabama, against Autry 
Greer & Sons, a partnership, Mobile, Ala., and E. Sumner Greer, J. Barton 
Greer, and Autry V. Greer, partners in the partnership.
ALLEGED VIOLATION : Between September 25, 1951, and October 23, 1952, while 
Quantities of flour were being held for sale on the premises of Autry Greer & 
Sons, after shipment in interstate commerce, the defendants caused a number 
of bags of the flour to be placed in a building that was accessible to rodents 
and caused the flour to be exposed to contamination by rodents, which acts 
resulted in the flour bekig adulterated.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), the article consisted 
in part of a filthy substance by reason of the presence of rodent urine; and, 
Section 402 (a) (4), the article had been held under insanitary conditions 
whereby it may have become contaminated with filth.
DISPOSITION : October 12, 1953. Pleas of guilty having been entered, the court 
fined each defendant $75.