P. & D. No. 2376.
S. No. 835.	
Issued July 15, 1911.
United States Department of Agriculture,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY.
NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 961, FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
ADULTERATION OF FROZEN EGGS.
On or about January 28, 1911. the Charles B. Ford Company,?
Chicago, 111., shipped from the State of Illinois into the State of?
Massachusetts 100 cans containing 50 pounds each of frozen eggs.?
Samples from this shipment were procured and examined bacterio-?
logically by the Bureau of Chemistry, United States Department of?
Agriculture, and were found to contain 8,000,000 organisms per cc,?
of which 1,000,000 were of the gas-producing type, and in addition?
the eggs were found to be full of flies, shells, and dirt, and in very?
bad condition. As it appeared from the findings of the analyst and?
report thereon that the shipment was adulterated within the mean??
ing of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, and was liable to?
seizure under section 10 of the act, the Secretary of Agriculture re??
ported the facts to the United States attorney for the District of?
Massachusetts.
On February 4, 1911, a libel was filed in the District Court of the?
United States for said district against the said 100 cans of frozen?
eggs, charging the above shipment, alleging that the product so?
shipped was adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of?
filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal and vegetable substance, and?
praying seizure, condemnation, and forfeiture of the product.
On March 23, 1911, the cause came on for hearing, and no claim??
ant to the product having appeared or answer to the allegations of?
the above libel having been filed, the court, being fully informed in?
the premises, issued its decree, condemning and forfeiting the product?
to the use of the United States for the cause alleged in said libel, and?
ordering the destruction thereof by the marshal of said district.
This notice is given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs?
Act of June 30, 1906.
JAMES WILSON,?
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 16, 1911.
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