15355. Adulteration and misbranding of corn meal.   U. S. v. 172 Bags   *    *   *.
(F. D. C. No. 27788,    Sample No, 53990-K.) 
LIBEL FILED :   On or about August 26, 1949, Northern District of Mississippi. 
ALLEGED SHIPMENT :   On or about July 27, 1949, by the B & W Mill & Elevator 
Co., from Red Bay, Ala.
PRODUCT: 172 25-pound bags of corn meal at Clarksdale, Miss. Examination 
showed that the product contained rodent excreta fragments, rodent hair, 
and insect fragments, and that each pound of the product contained less than 
2 mg. of thiamine, less than 1.2 mg. of riboflavin, and less than 13 mg. of iron.
LABEL IN PART: "Enriched * * * Sunshine Bolted White Corn Meal 
Sunshine Mills   Bed Bay, Ala."
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), the article consisted in 
whole or in part of a filthy substance; and, Section 402 (b) (1), valuable 
constituents, thiamine, riboflavin, and iron, had been in part omitted from 
the article.
Misbranding, Section 403 ,(g) (1), the article purported to be, and was 
represented as, enriched bolted white corn meal, and it failed to contain the 
amount of thiamine, riboflavin, and iron prescribed under the regulations 
relating to the definition and standard of identity for enriched bolted white 
corn meal.
DISPOSITION: September 27, 1949. Default decree of condemnation and 
destruction.