NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 974, FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
ADULTERATION OF EGGS.
On or about February 16, 1911, the Frederick Produce Company, 
Houston, Tex., shipped from the State of Texas into the State of 
New York 100 cases of eggs, each case being labeled as follows: 
" Frank Crawford, New York". An examination made by the 
Bureau of Chemistry, United States Department of Agriculture, of 
samples taken from the above described shipment, disclosed the fol- 
lowing: good 11.1 per cent, fair (watery) 18.8 per cent, spots 51.9 
per cent, rotten 18 per cent; 69.9 per cent of the eggs were entirely 
unfit for food. As it appeared from the above-mentioned examina- 
tion and report thereon that the product was adulterated within the 
meaning of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, and liable 
to seizure under section 10 of the act, the Secretary of Agriculture 
reported the facts to the United States attorney for the Southern 
District of New York.
In due course a libel was filed in the District Court of the United 
States for said district, against the said 100 cases of eggs, charging 
the above shipment, and alleging that the product so shipped was 
adulterated in that it was wholly or in part filthy, decomposed, or 
putrid, and praying seizure, condemnation, and forfeiture of the 
product.
On March 28, 1911, the cause coming on for hearing, and no 
claimant to the product having appeared, and no answer having been 
filed, the court, being fully informed in the premises, issued its 
decree finding the said 100 cases of eggs to be adulterated as alleged 
in said libel, and ordering the destruction of the product 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 £0, 1911.
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