38184. Adulteration of flour.    U. S. v. 163 Bags of Flour.    Decree of condemna¬
tion and forfeiture.    Article released under bond for segregation and 
denaturing   of   portion   unfit   for   human   consumption.      (F.   &   D.   No.
40301.    Sample No. 53361-C.)
This product was infested with weevils and worms.
On September 16, 1937, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Louisiana, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 163 bags of flour 
at New Orleans, La., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about July 5, 1937, by Ismert Hincke Milling Co. from Kansas 
City, Mo., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. 
The article was labeled in part: "Thunderbolt Flour Ismert Hincke Milling 
Co., Kansas City."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in 
part of a filthy vegetable substance.
On October 15, 1937, Schwartz & Voelkel, New Orleans, La., having intervened 
as owner or agent for the owner and having admitted the allegations of the 
libel, judgment of condemnation was entered. The product was ordered released 
to the claimant under bond conditioned that the bad be separated from the 
good, if any, and that the former be denatured so that it could not be used for 
human food, but that it might be used as animal feed.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.