0846.  Adulteration of    shell   eggs.     U.    S.     *      *      *     v.    Thomas    JE.    Ellis.
Plea of guilty.     Fine, $40.     (F. & D. No. 14346.    I. S. No. 4229-t.)
On May 2, 1921, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Kentucky, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Thomas E. Ellis, Rumsey, Ky., alleging shipment by said defendant, in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about August 22, 1920, from the State 
of Kentucky into the State of Indiana, of a quantity of shell eggs which were 
adulterated.
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 180 eggs 
from each of the 7 cases involved in the consignment showed that 156, or 12.38 
per cent of those examined, were inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed 
or white rots, moldy eggs, spot rots, and blood rings.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal 
substance.
On May 2, 1921, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $40.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting secretary of Agriculture.