7413. Adulteration of  eggs.     V.  S.     *     *     *     v.  33S  Cases  of  Shell  Eggs.
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture.    Good portion or- 
dered i-eleased  on  Soad.     Unfit portion  ordered  destroyed.      (F.  &
D. No. .10157.    I. S. No. 15310-r.    S. No. E-1288.)
On March 8, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
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 338 cases of shell eggs, consigned on March 5, 1919, remaining unsold in the 
original unbroken packages at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article had 
been shipped by the Washington Market Co., Washington, D. C, and trans- 
ported from the District of Columbia into the State of Maryland, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
contained an excessive amount of eggs decomposed in whole or in part.
On March 10, 1919, Emanuel M. Warner, trading as Strieker Bros., Baltimore, 
Md., having filed an answer to the libel and making claim to the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be released to said claimant upon the payment of the costs 
of the proceedings and the execution of. a bond in the sum of $1,000, in con- 
formity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that the article should 
be sorted under the supervision of a representative of this department, the good 
portion to be released to said claimant to be sold or. disposed of for human 
consumption.
.         E.  D. BALL, Acting Secretary of. Agriculture.