G003. Adulteration of corn fionr. V. S. * * * v. 2C0 Sacks of Corn Flour.?
Consent decree of eondeBin-atKm .aaa-d forfeiture. Product ordered?
released on bond.     (F. & D. No   9395.     I. S. No. 10109-r.     S   No   E-1139 )
On October 14, 1918, the United States attorney for the Southern District of?
Georgia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis??
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and con??
demnation of .260 sacks of corn flour, remaining unsold *n ?the 'original unbroken?
packages at Savannah, Ga , alleging that the article had been shipped on or?
about August '20, 1918, by the Mountain City Mills, Chattanooga, Tenn , and?
transported from the State of Tennessee into the State of Georgia, and ehai;giTig?
adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged m substance in the libel for the reason?
that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, tmd decomposed animal?
and vegetable substance, said .product being badly infested with weevils and?
in a sour and molded condition.
On October 19, 1918, H. H. Alexander, trading as the Alexander 'Grocery Co.,?
Savannah, Ga., claimant, having consented to a decree, judgment ?f comdemma-?
tion and foifeiture was entered, and it was ordered <by the comrt that the prod??
uct should be released to said claimant upon the .payment of the costs of the?
proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum .of $550, in conformity with?
?section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that the <pr?@duct should not be dis??
posed of for human food.
C. F. MAEVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.