4706. Adulteration Of flour.    IT. S. v. 40 Bags of Flour.    Default decree of con¬
demnation and destruction. (F. D. C. No. 9260. Sample Nos. 10798-F, 
10799-F, 10941-F.)
This product had been stored after shipment in an old building infested with 
rodents. Some of the bags had been chewed by rodents and contained urine 
stains. Samples of the flour were found to contain rodent pellets and rodent-type 
hairs.
On February 1, 1943, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California filed a. libel against 40 98-pound bags of flour at Oakland, Calif., in 
the possession of Peter Lefevre & Co., alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce within the period from on or about July 7 to October 
10, 1942, from Tacoma, Wash.; and charging that it was adulterated in that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance, and in that it had been held 
under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with 
filth. The article was labeled in part: "Centennial 100% Whole Wheat [or 
"Pandora"] Flour." 
On March 27, 1943* no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.