5126. Adulteration of rice and yellow split peas.    U. S. v. 109 Bags of Rice, 100
Bags of Yellow Split Peas, and 42 Bags of Rice. Consolidated decree of 
condemnation. Product ordered released under bond for segregation and 
destruction of the unfit portion. (F. D. C. Nos. 9836, 9868. Sample Nos. 
20087-F, 20089-F. 20090-F, 20097-F.)
These products had been stored under insanitary conditions after shipment 
in interstate commerce and when examined rodent excreta was found on the 
bags and many of the bags had been gnawed by rodents and contained rodent 
urine stains. 
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On April 21 and 26, .1943, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts filed libels against 151 100-pound bags of rice and 100 100-pound bags 
of yeliow split peas at Boston, Mass., alleging that the articles were in posses- 
sion of the Bowker Storage & Distributing Co., Inc., and that they had been shipped 
in interstate commerce within the period from on or about November 17, 1942;
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to January 23, 1943, from Blue Island, and Chicago, Ill., ahd Crowley, La.; and 
^charging that they were adulterated in that they consisted in whole or in part 
./of filthy substances, and in that they had been held under insanitary conditions 
whereby they may have become contaminated with filth.
On May 28,1943, Morris Alper & Sons, Inc., of Boston, Mass., having appeared 
as claimant and having admitted" the allegations of the libels, a consolidated 
decree of condemnation was entered and the product was ordered released under 
bond for segregation and destruction of the unfit portions of the products under 
the supervision of the Food and Drug Administration.
CHOCOLATE, SUGARS, AND RELATED PRODUCTS
CANDY
Nos. 5127 to 5132 report actions involving candy that was contaminated 
with one or more types of filth, such as rodent excreta, rodent hairs, hair frag- 
ments resembling rodent or cat hairs, insects and insect fragments, splinters, 
fibres, and nondescript dirt.  No. 5132 was also misbranded.