4037. Adulteration of desiccated [evaporated] eggs.  tJ. S. v. Armour & Co.   Plea ol guilty.?
Fine, $200 and costs.   (F. & D. No. 2690.   I. S. No. 1778-c.)
On January 26,1912, the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the?
United States for said district an information against Armour & Co., a corporation,?
Chicago, 111., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs?
Act, on May 7, 1910, from the State of Illinois into the State of Washington, of a?
quantity of desiccated [evaporated] eggs which were adulterated.
Bacteriological examination of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry?
of this department showed after 3 days' incubation 610,000,000 organisms per gram?
developing on plain agar at 25? C.; 540,000,000 at 37? C.; 100,000 B. coK type organisms.?
The appearance of the product was fair, odor bad, and some dirt was present.
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the information for the reason that it?
consisted in part, the exact proportion whereof was to the United States attorney?
unknown, of a filthy animal substance, the exact character whereof was to said United?
States attorney unknown; for the further reason that the article consisted in part,?
the exact proportion whereof was to the United States attorney unknown, of a decom??
posed animal substance, the exact character whereof was to the United States?
attorney unknown; and for the further reason that the article consisted in part, the?
exact proportion whereof was to the United States attorney unknown, of a putrid?
animal substance, the exact character whereof was to the United States attorney?
unknown.
On October 28,1914, the defendant company withdrew its plea of not guilty thereto??
fore entered, and entered a plea of guilty to the information, and the cause was taken?
under advisement by the court. On March 26, 1915, the court imposed a fine of $200?
and costs on the plea of guilty entered as above stated.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, November 4,1915.
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