NOTICE  OF JUDGMENT  NO. 2110.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF EVAPORATED EGGS.
On July 27, 1912, the United States Attorney for the Northern 
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district an information against Charles H. Weaver, Charles A. 
Weaver, and L. Bernard Kilbourne, copartners doing business as 
C. H. Weaver & Co., Chicago, Ill., alleging shipment by them, in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on February 24, 1910, from the 
State of Illinois into the State of New York of a quantity of evaporated 
eggs which were adulterated. The product was labeled: "Bruce & 
West Mfg. Co., Syracuse, N. Y."
Bacteriological examination of a sample of the product by the 
Bureau of Chemistry of this Department showed upon the average of 
three samples, 118,000,000 bacteria per gram, at 25° C, after four days. 
There were also present 1,000,000 organisms of the B. coli group 
per gram. The excessive number of organisms and the excessive 
number of B. coli present showed that the product was composed 
wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed substance. Adulteration 
of the product was alleged in the information for the reason that it 
consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On September 25, 1912, defendants entered pleas of guilty to the 
information and the court imposed a fine of $50, with costs.
W. M. HAYS,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture
WASHINGTON, D. C, December IS, 1912.
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