4089. Adulteration of sugar.    U. S. v. 26 Bags of Sugar. ' Default decree of con¬
demnation and destruction.    (F. D. C. No. 8146.    Sample No. 4508-F.)
This product was damaged in transit by a substance which appeared to be 
acid. Some of the bags had been entirely destroyed and the sugar was con- 
taminated with dirt and lumps of wet, yellowish-brown sugar which gave an acid 
.reaction.
On August 18, 1942, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Kentucky filed a libel against 26 100-pound-bags of sugar at Hopkinsville, Ky., 
alleging that the article had been, shipped in interstate commerce on or about 
July 8, 1942, by the American Sugar Refining Co., from Three Oaks, La.; and 
charging that it- was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy 
substance or was otherwise unfit for food.
On October 20, 1942, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed,