5239. Adulteration of eggs. U. S. * * * v. SO Cases of Eggs. Consent?
decree of eora demxiatiom stud forfeiture. Product ordered released?
?a bond.     (F. & D. No. 7634.    I. S. No. 1209-m.    S. No. E-679.)
On August 3, 1916, the United States attorney for the Southern District of?
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure?
and condemnation of 30 cases, each containing 30 dozen eggs, remaining unsold?
in the original unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article?
had been shipped on or about July 29, 1916, by the Fry Produce Co., Greenville,?
Tenn., and transported from the State of Tennessee into the State of New?
York, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance, to wit,?
at least 20 per cent of rotten and spotted eggs.
On August 3, 1916, Floyd B. Godley, agent for W. W. Blzea, New York, N. Y.,?
claimant, having consented to a decree, judgment of condemnation and for??
feiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be re??
leased to said claimant upon the payment of the costs of the proceedings and?
the execution of a bond in the sum of $200, in conformity with section 10 of?
the act, conditioned in part that the eggs should be sorted under the super??
vision of this department, and that the portion found to be unfit for food should?
be destroyed by the United States marshal and the balance disposed of accord??
ing to law.
GAEL VEOOMAH, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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