5727. Adulteration of duels peas.    U.  S. v.  800 Bags of  Chick Peas.    Portion
of product condemned and ordered delivered to claimant under bond for 
denaturing; remainder ordered released. (F. D. ¦ C. No. 10205. Sample 
No. 48100-F.)
This product was stored under insanitary conditions, after shipment. Many 
of the bags were rodent-gnawed and contained rodent excreta. Examination 
of samples taken from some of the bags showed that the product contained 
rodent excreta and rodent-gnawed peas.
On July 8, 1943, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Ken- 
tucky filed a libel against 800 bags of chick peas at Ashland, Ky., alleging that 
the article had been shipped on or about February 24, 1943, in interstate com- 
merce from. St. Louis, Mo., and that it was in possession of the Golden Dream 
Food Corporation, Ashland, Ky.; 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.   ¦•    -
On October 18, 1943, Swanson Brothers, Inc., Chicago, Ill., having appeared as 
claimant and having admitted the allegations of the libel with respect to 27 
bags of the product, judgment of condemnation was entered against this por- 
tion of the product and it was ordered to be delivered to the claimant under 
bond for denaturing, under the supervision of the Food and Drug Administration 
tion.    The remainder of the product was ordered released to the claimant.