19769. Adulteration of wheat.   U. S. v. 90,870 Pounds   *    *   *.    (F. D. C. No.
33469.    Sample No. 48687-L.)
LIBEL FILED :   July 15,1952, District of Minnesota.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT : On or about June 12, 1952, by the Occident Elevator Co., 
from Roberts, Mont.
PRODUCT:   90,870 pounds of wheat at Duluth, Minn.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (2), the product contained 
an added poisonous and deleterious substance, a mercurial compound, which 
is unsafe within the meaning of the law since it is a substance not required 
in the production of the product and can be avoided by good manufacturing 
practice.
DISPOSITION : July 25, 1952. The Russell Miller Milling Co., claimant, having 
consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation was entered 
and the court ordered that the product be released under bond to be distilled 
into industrial alcohol, under the supervision of the Federal Security Agency.
On September 10, 1952, the decree was amended to substitute the Farmers 
Union Grain Terminal Association, St. Paul, Minn., as claimant and to permit 
reprocessing of the grain by scouring.
The wheat in the instant case and the wheat involved in the cases reported 
in the preceding notice of judgment, No. 19768, and in the following Nos. 19770 
and 19771, were commingled for purposes of the scouring operations. As a 
result of these operations, 12,840 pounds of wheat were found unfit and were 
destroyed.