6240. J&iatnramking   Of  Eg-gette.    XT.   S.   *    *    *   v.   60   ??*ttfns   of   SO-Called?
Egrg-ette.    Ddfoiilt   tlec*?e   ??   cN>iidem:jisj,tian.y   forfeitures   tut A   sale.
(F. & D. No. 374-c.)
On December 20, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Kansas,?
acting upon a report by the secretary of the State Board of Health of Kan??
sas, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel?
for the seizure and condemnation of 60 cartons, each containing 12 packages?
of Bggette, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages at Topeka,?
Kans., alleging that the" article had been shipped on or about December 7,?
1917, by the Bestever Products Co., Deering, 111., and transported from the?
State of Illinois into the State of Kansas, and charging misbranding in viola??
tion of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part, " Eggette.?
Egg Substitute    *    *    *."
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the libel for the reasoii that it?
contained a large per cent Of cereal product, and that th? label or brand was?
misleading and false and calculated to induce the purchaser to believe that?
the product wag a substitute for eggs and that each 10--cent package was equal?
in food -value to 12 eggs, when, in truth and in fact, it contained a large per?
cent of cereal.
On March 11, 1918, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg??
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the?
court that the product should be sold by the United States marshal, and that?
the purchaser execute a bond in the sum of $100, in conformity with section?
10 of the act, conditioned in part that the product should be properly labeled.
G. I. CHRISTIE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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