30440. Adulteration of confections.     U. S. v. 17 Boxes of Cream Cakes   (and 1
other seizure of a similar product). Default decrees of condemnation 
and destruction. (F. & D. Nos. 43693, 43694. Sample Nos. 37986-D, 
37986-D.)
This product, which had been shipped in interstate commerce and remained 
unsold and in the original packages at the time of examination, was found to 
be insect-infested.
On October 20, 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 libels praying seizure and condemnation of 25 boxes of con- 
fections at Hattiesburg, Miss.; alleging that the articles had been shipped on 
or about May 29 and October 9, 1936, by Thinshell Products, Inc., from Chicago,