2872.?Adulteration of frozen egg product.   17. S. v. Morton K.. Craven (Eastern Provision Co.,
Consolidated Egg Yelk Co.).   Plea of nolo contendere.   Fine, $200 and costs.   (F. &
D. No. 4192.   I. S. No. 3150-d.)
At the September, 1912, sessions of the District Court of the United States for the?
Eastern District of Pennsylvania the grand inquest of the United States in and for?
said district, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, returned an indict??
ment against Morton R. Craven, trading under the name of the Consolidated Egg?
Yelk Co., Philadelphia, Pa., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the?
Food and Drugs Act, on October 31, 1911, from the State of Pennsylvania into the?
State of New York, of a quantity of frozen egg product which was adulterated. The?
product was not labeled.
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of this Department?
showed the following results: After calculating the results to moisture, fat free basis,?
cc of N/100 iodin solution reduced per 15 grams of sample, 185.3; milligrams of?
ammonia per 100 grams of eggs (ZnO method), 120.5; milligrams of ammonia per 100?
grams of eggs (Folin's titration method), 74.6. Bacteriological examination of a?
sample of the product by said Bureau of Chemistry showed the following results:?
160,000,000 organisms per gram, plain agar, after 4 days at 25? C; 160,000,000 organ??
isms per gram, plain agar, after 4 days at 25? C.; 160,000,000 organisms per gram, plain?
agar, after 4 days at 37? C; 190,000,000 organisms per gram, plain agar, after 4 days?
at 37? C.; 10,000,000 B. coli group per gram; 10,000,000 streptococci per gram. It was?
found that the product must have consisted in part of spot eggs, as three embryos and?
one piece of mold were found; odor sour. The ten larvae found indicated a filthy?
condition and careless handling. Adulteration of the product was charged in the?
indictment for the reason that it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid?
animal and vegetable substance.
On June 9, 1913, the defendant entered a plea of nolo contendere to the indictment?
and the court imposed a fine of $200 and costs.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, February 18, 1914.