30416. Adulteration of  flour.     U.   S.   v.   498   Bags   of  Flour.     Product   ordered
released under bond.    (F. & D. No. 44131.    Sample No. 49789-D.)
This product, which had been shipped in interstate commerce and remained 
unsold and in the original packages at the time of examination, was in whole 
or in part insect-infested.
On October 21, 1938, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Mississippi, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 498 bags of flour 
at Jackson, Miss.; alleging that the article had been shipped on or about Sep- 
tember 13, 1988, by the Oklahoma City Mill & Elevator Co. from Oklahoma 
City, Okla.; and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. 
The article was labeled in part: "Choctaw Chief Strong Bakers Patent."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in 
part of a filthy vegetable substance.
On January 26, 1939, the Merchants Co., Jackson, Miss., having appeared as 
claimant, judgment was entered ordering that the product be released under 
bond conditioned that it should not be disposed of in violation of the law.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.