NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1046.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF FROZEN EGGS.
On December 8, 1910, the United States Attorney for the Western 
District of Missouri, acting upon the report of the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for the West- 
ern Division of said district a libel praying condemnation and for- 
feiture of 175 crates of frozen eggs in the possession of the People's 
Ice, Storage & Fuel Co.
Examinations of samples from said consignment by the Bureau of 
Chemistry, United States Department of Agriculture, showed that 
there were present in 1 cubic centimeter 150,000,000 bacteria, of which 
10,000,000 were of the gas-producing type B coli. The libel alleged 
that the eggs, after shipment by Henry Kalchheim & Co., of Dallas, 
Tex., from the State of Texas into the State of Missouri, remained 
in the original unbroken packages and were adulterated in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, because they consisted 
in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed animal sub- 
stance and were, therefore, liable to seizure for confiscation.
On April 17, 1911, no one appearing as claimant of said eggs, the 
court found them to consist of a filthy, putrid, and decomposed sub- 
stance, and that the United States was entitled to a decree of con- 
demnation as prayed for in the libel. Accordingly a decree was 
entered on said day condemning and forfeiting the eggs to the United 
States, and ordering their destruction by the United States marshal, 
and, on April 28, 1911, the said marshal destroyed the said eggs, 
pursuant to the order of the court.
JAMES WILSON, 
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, August 5, 1911.
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