9393. Adulteration and Misbranding of flour.     V. S.     *     *     *     v. 434 Sacks
of Wheat Flour. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product ordered released on bond. (F. & D. No. 13935. I. S. No. 
6505-t.    S. No. E-2865.)
On or about November 22, 1920, the United States attorney for the District 
of New Jersey, 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 condemnation of 434 sacks of wheat flour, at Greenville Piers, N. J., 
alleging that the article had been shipped on or about September 22, 1920, by 
the Dillsburg Grain & Milling Co., Dillsburg, Pa., and transported from the State 
of Pennsylvania into the State of New Jersey, and charging adulteration and 
misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason 
that a substance, to wit, water, had been mixed and packed with said article 
in a manner whereby damage or inferiority was concealed, and had been sub- 
stituted wholly or in part for the article.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was in package form, 
and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously marked on 
the outside of the package.
Thereafter, during the month of January, 1921, the case having come on for 
final disposition, and George P. White, claimant, having consented to the 
entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and 
it was ordered by the court that the product be delivered to said claimant 
upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in 
the sum of $1,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.