5272. Adulteration of corn meal.    U. S. v. 30 Bags of Corn Meal.    Default decree
of condemnation and destruction.    (F. D.C. No. 10275.   Sample No. 23078-F.)
On July 16, 1943, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Penn- 
sylvania filed a libel against 30 bags of corn meal at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging 
that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about June 24, 
1943, by the Davis Milling Co., Inc., from Norfolk, Va.; and charging that it was 
adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of filthy substances by reason 
of the presence therein of rodent excreta fragments and rodent hairs. The 
article was labeled in part:   "Mayo    *    *    *   Meal for Meals   Bolted."
On August 18, 1943, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
Was entered and the product was ordered destroyed.     '• 
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FLOUR
Nos. 5273 to 5284 report actions involving flour that was found to be con- 
taminated with one or more types of filth, such as beetles, weevils, larvae and 
larvae fragments, cast skins, pupae, insects and insect fragments, rodent excreta, 
rodent hairs and hair fragments, rodent urine, and small pieces of chewed paper. 
The flour reported in Nos. 5173 to 5177 had been held under insanitary condi- 
tions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth. The time of con- 
tamination in the remaining cases was not determined.