5429. Adulteration of flour.    IT. S. v. 135 Bags and 738 Bags of Flour.    Consent
decree of condemnation. Product ordered released under'bond, or upon 
deposit of cash collateral, for segregation of good portion and treatment 
of unfit portion so that it could not be used for human consumption.
(F. D. C. No. 10108.    Sample Nos. 23430-F, 23431-F.)
This product had been stored under insanitary conditions after shipment. 
Many of the bags were rodent-gnawed, and numerous mouse pellets and gnawed 
paper were found throughout the storage room. Examination of samples showed 
the bags and flour were contaminated with rodent hair, rodent excreta, and 
urine.
. On June 17, 1943, the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey 
filed a libel against 873 bags of flour at Bridgeton, N. J., alleging that: the 
:article had been shipped from Buffalo, N. Y., within the period from on or about 
October 2, 1942, to March 31, 1943, and that it remained in interstate commerce 
in the possession of Home Town Stores, Inc., Bridgeton, N. J; and charging that 
it was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy substance, ^ 
i. e., flour contaminated with rodent hairs, rodent excreta, and urine; and in that 
it had been held under insanitary conditions whereby it might have become con- 
taminated with filth. 
On September 28, 1943, Home Town Stores, Inc., claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered and the product' 
was ordered released upon the deposit of cash collateral, or the execution of a 
bond, conditioned that the good portion be segregated and that the unfit portion 
be: treated so that it could not be used for human consumption, all under the 
supervision of the Food and Drug Administration.