11721. Adulteration of flour.    V. S. v. 200 Sacks of Flour.     Consent deeree
of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product   released  under  bond.
(F. & D. No. 16432.    I. S. No. 14047-t.    S. No. W-1104.)
On or about June 20, 1922, the United States attorney for the Western Dis- 
trict of Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying 
the seizure and condemnation of 200 sacks of flour, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Montana Flour Mills Co., from Great Falls, Mont., February 25, 1922, 
and transported from the State of Montana into the State of Washington, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article 
was labeled in part: " Montana Flour Mills Co. Highest Patent Sapphire 
Flour * * * Made From Selected Hard Wheat Matured Bleached * * * 
49 Lbs. Net Sapphire Flour ' It's The Wheat.' "
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that 
water had been mixed and packed with and substituted wholly or in part 
for the said article.
On June 23, 1922, Galbraith & Co., Seattle, Wash., claimant, having ad- 
mitted the allegations of the libel and confessed judgment, a decree of con- 
demnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that 
the product be released to the said claimant upon payment of the costs of the 
proceedings and the execution of a bond In the sum of $250, in conformity 
with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that the product be recondi- 
tioned under the supervision and to the satisfaction of this department
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.