29714. Adulteration  and misbranding of   flour.     U.   S.   v.   300  Bags  of  Flour.
Consent decree of condemnation. Product released under bond to be 
denatured and relabeled.     (F. & D. No. 43176.    Sample No. 37803-D.)
This product having been shipped in interstate commerce and remaining 
unsold and in the original packages, was at the time of examination, found 
to be adulterated because of insect infestation. It was also misbranded be- 
cause it was bleached flour and bore no statement indicating that fact.
On August 1, 1938, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
Alabama, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 300 bags of flour 
at Birmingham, Ala.; alleging that the article had been shipped on or about 
June 29, 1938, by the Acme Flour Mills Co. from Oklahoma City, Okla.; and 
charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. 
It was labeled in part: "Speed King Baker's Special Flour."
It was alleged to be adulterated in that bleached flour had been substituted 
wholly or in part for the article, and in that it consisted wholly or in part 
of a filthy vegetable substance.
The article was alleged to be misbranded in that the statement "Flour" was 
false and misleading and tended to deceive and mislead the purchaser when 
applied to bleached flour.
On November 8, 1938, the Shaw Warehouse Co., Birmingham, Ala., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was 
entered, and the product was ordered released under bond conditioned that it 
be denatured so that it could not be diverted to human use, that the labels 
be obliterated, and that if relabeled such labels comply with the law.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.