10897.?Adulteration   of   shell   eggs.     U.   S.   v.   Jim   Moss.     Plea   of   guilty.
Fine, $35.     (F. & D. No. 15585.    I. S. No. 204-t.)
On January 21, 1922, 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?
Jim Moss, Cunningham, Ky., alleging shipment by said defendant in violation?
of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about August 24, 1921, from the State of Ken??
tucky into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of shell eggs which were adulter??
ated.
Examination of 2,160 eggs from the consignment, by the Bureau of Chemistry?
of this department, showed that 139, or 6.4 per cent of those examined, were in??
edible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots, moldy, spot rots, blood?
rings, heavy, and eggs stuck to the shell.
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 April 17, 1922, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information,?
and the court imposed a fine of $25.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.