7038. Adulteration    of   sliell    eggs.     IT.   S.    *    *    *    v.   S4S    Cases   *     *    *    of
Sliell Egfgs, Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product ordered released on bond. (F. & D. No. 9566. I. S. No. 
1491G-r.    S. No. E-1188.)
On December 12, 1918, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Pennsylvania, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
tJie District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure 
and condemnation of 248 cases, each containing 30 dozen shell eggs, consigned 
by John K. Lasher & Bro., New York, N. Y., remaining unsold in the original 
unbroken packages at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been 
shipped on or about November 30, 1918, and transported from the State of 
New York into the State of Pennsylvania, and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel "for the reason that the 
shipment contained a considerable proportion of decomposed eggs of the 
grades known as rots and spots.
On December 31, 1918, the said John K. Lasher & Bro., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture 
was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product should 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 $2,500, in conformity with section 10 of 
the act, conditioned in part that the eggs should be recandled under the super- 
vision of a representative of this department.
E. D. BALL, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.