3181.?Adulteration of flour.    U. S. v. 350 Sacks of Flour.     Consent decree
of    condemnation    and    forfeiture.   Product    released     on    bond.
(F. & D. No. 5334.    S. No. 1936.)
On September 22, 1913, the United States Attorney for the Southern District?
of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States, for said district a libel for the seizure and
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[May, 1914.
condemnation of 350 sacks of flour, remaining unsold in the original unbroken?
packages and in possession of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., New York,?
N. Y., alleging that the product had been shipped on or about July 5, 1913, by?
the Hardesty Milling Co., Canal Dover, Ohio, and transported from the State?
of Ohio into the State of New York, and charging adulteration in violation of?
the Food and Drugs Act. The product bore no label, but some of the sacks or?
containers were stenciled " Sound, N. Y. Prod. Exch. ' Inspection July 1913.' "
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
consisted of a filthy and decomposed vegetable substance, to wit, worms and?
weevils, contrary to the provisions of section 7,' subdivision 6, under " Food,"?
of said Food and Drugs Act.
On November 5, 1913, a claim and stipulation for costs having been filed by?
Thomas It. Van Boskerck, New York, N. Y., and said claimant having consented?
to a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it?
was ordered by the court that the product should be redelivered to said claim??
ant upon payment of all costs of the proceedings and the execution of bond in?
the sum of $700, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 26, 1914.