24751. Grape wine.    (F.D.O. No. 41796.    S. Nos. 23-006/8 P.)
QUANTITY:   22 ctns., 12 -%-qt. jugs each, and 5 ctns., 24 ^-pt. jugs each, at
Wilmington, Calif. 
SHIPPED :   4-26-58, from Lisbon, Portugal.
RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION : The article represented the damaged portion of a 
lot which was stored upright and upside down in a hatch of the "SS Loch 
Garth" which was flooded by water from a broken ship waterline, resulting in 
the bottom cartons being immersed in blackened, floor-washed floodwater
Examination showed a black, filthy, dried, watermark on the foil cap near 
the edge where the cap joined the neck of the jug. The caps were loose and 
could be easily slipped off. Some were heavily corroded on the inside due to 
slow leakage of wine, some were encrusted with white salts, and the edges of 
some were moldy.
LIBELED :   6-5-58, S. Dist. Calif.
CHARGE: 402(a)(3)—while in interstate commerce, the article was unfit for 
food by reason of having been contaminated with dirty hatch water; and 
402(a) (4)—the article was held under insanitary conditions in dirty hatch 
water.
DISPOSITION:   6-25-58.  Default—destruction.