S795. Adulteration of shell eggs. XI. S. * * * v. IVewt T. Peek, Ben A.?
I'eek, Isaac M. IiawNon, and W. Massie LaTrson (Peek & Lawson).?
Pleas of guilty.     Fine, $50.     (F. & D. No. 11354.    I. S. No. 6826-r.)
On June 22, 1920, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of?
Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court of the United States for said district an information against Newt T.?
Peek, Ben A. Peek, Isaac M. Lawson, and W. Massie Lawson, copartners,?
trading as Peek & Lawson, Box Elder, Tex., alleging shipment by said de??
fendants, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 1, 1919, from?
the State of Texas into the State of Arkansas, of a quantity of shell eggs?
which were adulterated.
Examination of 180 eggs from each of two cases showed the presence of 49?
inedible eggs, or 13.6 per cent, consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots,?
and spot rots.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, and decomposed animal?
substance.
On October 19, 1920, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the information,?
and the court imposed a fine of $50.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.