2834. Adulteration of flour.     TJ. S. v. 93 Bags, 72 Bags, 135 Bags, 35 Bags, and 63
Bags of Flour. Consent decree of condemnation ordering the product re- 
leased under bond to foe denatured. (F. D. C. Nos. 5876, 5877. Sample Nos. 
67647-E to 67649-E, incl.)
On October 1, 1941, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Arkansas filed a libel against 200 48-pound bags and 198 24-pound bags of flour 
at Paragould, Ark., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce within the period from on or about May 28 to on or about August 
13, 1941, in part by Blair Milling Co. from Atchison, Kans., and in part by 
Robinson Milling Co. from Salina, Kans.; and charging that it was adulterated 
in that it consisted in whole and/or in part of a filthy, putrid, arid decomposed
substance, and was Otherwise unfit for food. The article was labeled in part: 
(Bags) "White Gold *' * * Flour * * * Self-Rising"; "Southern 
Beauty Flour"; or "Red Seal Flour."
Puryear-Meyer Grocer Co., Paragould, Ark., claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered on November 
25, 1941, as of October 29, 1941, ordering that the product be released under 
bond to be denatured under the supervision of the Food and Drug Administra- 
tion so that it could not be used for human consumption.