6869. Adulteration of shell eggs. U. S. * * * v. 200 Cases * * * of Shell?
Eggs. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product?
ordered released on bond, (F. & D. No. 9223. I. S. No. 13605-i\ S. No.?
E-1074.)
On July 26, 1918, 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 200 cases, each containing 30 dozen shell eggs, remaining?
unsold in the original unbroken packages, at New York, N. Y., alleging that the?
article had been shipped on or about July 10, 1918, by the Danville Packing &?
Cold Storage Co., Danville, 111., and transported from the State of Illinois 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.
On July 26, 1918, Joseph J. Herald, New York, N. Y., claimant, having ad??
mitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture?
was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product should be sorted?
under the supervision of a representative of this department, the unfit portion?
to be destroyed by the United States marshal, and the good portion to 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 $2,000, in conformity with section 10 of?
the act.
C. F. MAEVTN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.