4545. Adulteration of Matzos, Matzos meal, and cracker meal. U. S. v. 24 Cases of Matzos (and 3 other seizures of similar products). Default decrees of condemnation and destruction. (F. D. C. Nos. 9803, 9804, 9844, 9876. Sample Nos. 23269-F to 23271-F, incl., 24800-F, 28947-F, 32507-F to 32509-F, incl.) These products .contained insect fragments, rodent hair fragments, larvae, hair fragments resembling rodent hairs, and rodent excreta. On or about April 17, 19, 27, and May 1, 1943, the United States attorneys for the Northern District of Georgia, the District of New Jersey, the Eastern District of Virginia, and the Northern District of Ohio, filed libels against 24 cases, each containing 36 packages, and 174 separate packages of Matzos, 9 cases, each containing 24 packages, and 140 separate packages of Matzo meal, and 60 cases, each containing 24 packages, of cracker meal in various lots at Atlanta, Ga., Norma, N. J., Camp Pendleton, Va., and Cleveland, Ohio, alleging that the articles had been shipped in interstate commerce within the period from on oi? about March 18 to April 6, 1943, by B. C. Friedman & Co., from Phila- delphia, Pa.; and charging that they were adulterated in that they consisted in whole or in part of filthy substances, and in that they had been prepared under insanitary conditions whereby they may have become contaminated with filth. The articles were labeled in part: "Matzos," "Matzo Meal," or "Philadelphia Cracker Meal '.* * * Philadelphia Cracker Meal Company, Philadelphia, Pa." On May 11 and 29, and June 18 and 23, 1943, no claimant having appeared, judgments of condemnation were entered and the products were ordered de- stroyed.