6180. Adulteration of slielleggs.   U.S.   *   *   *   v. 186 Cases ol Shell Eggs.   Consent decree?
of condemnation and forfeiture.   Product ordered released on bond.   (F. & D. No.
8389.   I. S. No. 9507-p.   S. No. 0-725.)
On July 27, 1917, the United States attorney for the Western District of Tennessee;?
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 186 cases?
of shell eggs, consigned on July 24, 1917, remaining unsold in the original unbroken?
packages at Memphis, Tenn., alleging that the article had been shipped by J. V.?
Boring & Bro., Houston, Miss., and transported from the State of Mississippi into the?
State of Tennessee, 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 whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On July 27, 1917, the said J. V. Boring & Bro., claimants, having consented to a?
decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered?
by the court that the product should be delivered to said claimants upon the payment?
of the costs of proceedings, and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, in con??
formity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that the eggs should be candled?
under the supervision of a representative of this department.
CARL VROOMAN,?
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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