5584. Adulteration of soup mixes.    U. S. v. 193 Packages and 74 Dozen Boxes 
of-  Soup   Mixes.     Default   decrees   of   condemnation   and   destruction.
(F. D. €. Nos. 9765, 9770.'  Sample Nos. 23516-F, 23517-F; 44598^-F.)
This product contained insect fragments, rodent excreta fragments, rodent 
hair fragments, and fragments resembling rodent hairs.  =
Oh or about April 7 and 8, 1943, the United States attorneys for the Middle 
District of Pennsylvania and the District of Connecticut filed libels against 
193 packages of soup mixes at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and 74 dozen boxes at Bridge- 
port, Conn., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce 
on or about February 23, 1943, by A. Goodman & Sons, Inc., from New York 
N. Y.; ahd Charging that it was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or 
hi part of a filthy substance, and in that it had been prepared under insanitary 
conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth; The article 
was labeled in part: "Goodman's Vegetable Noodle Soup Mixture [or "Noodle- 
man Soup Mix"]'."'
Oh May 5 and June 25, 1943, no claimant having appeared, judgments of con- 
demnation were entered and theproduct was ordered destroyed.