10423. Adulteration of   shell   eggs.     IT.   S.     *      *     *     v.   Elmer   L.   Kenison
(E. L. Kenison Produce Co.).     Plea of guilty.     Fine, $50 and costs.
(F. & D. No. 16008.    I. S. No. 2008-t.)
On April 7, 1922, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Elmer L. Kenison, trading as the E. L. Kenison Produce Co., Longdale, Okla., 
alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, 
on or about July 21, 1921, from the State of Oklahoma into the State of Kansas, 
of a quantity of an article of food, to wit, shell eggs, which was adulterated.
Examination of a sample of the article, consisting of all the eggs in 14 cases, 
or 5,040 eggs, by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department, showed the 
presence of 16 black rots, 240 mixed or white rots, 12 moldy eggs, 24 spot rots, 
and 132 blood rings, a total of 424 inedible eggs, or 8.4 per cent.
Adulteration of the article was alleged, in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On April 10, 1922, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.