F. & D. Nos. 937, 943, 944, 945.
S. Nos. 333,337,338,335.	
Issued December 17,1910.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE   OF  THE   SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 665, FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
ADULTERATION OF DESICCATED EGG PRODUCT.
During the months of August and September, 1909, the Columbia?
Desiccated Egg Company, Chicago, 111., shipped from the State of?
Illinois to the State of Virginia six consignments, aggregating nine?
drums and one barrel, of desiccated egg product. Examination of?
samples of this product, made in the Bureau of Chemistry, United?
States Department of Agriculture, showed it to be adulterated within?
the meaning of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906. As it?
appeared from the findings of the analyst and report made that the?
said shipments were liable to seizure under section 10 of the act, the?
Secretary of Agriculture reported the facts to the United States?
attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
In due course libels were filed in the District Court of the United?
States for said district against the said nine drums and one barrel of?
desiccated egg product, charging the above shipments and alleging?
that the product so shipped was adulterated in that it contained an?
excessive number of bacterial organisms, of which a great many were?
of a gas-producing type, and also contained streptococci and was?
composed of filthy and decomposed matter, and therefore unfit for?
human consumption, and praying seizure and condemnation of the?
product.
The causes coming on for hearing, and no claimants to the product?
having appeared or answer having been filed to any of the above?
libels, the court, being fully informed in the premises, issued its?
decree in each of the above cases, condemning the product and order??
ing its destruction by the marshal of said district, which order was?
forthwith executed.
This notice is given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs?
Act of June 30, 1906.
W. M. HAYS,?
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 1, 1910.
66751??No. 665-10