11213.?Adulteration  of  shell   eggs.    IT.   S.  v.  John  E.  White   and  Tyler  C.
White   (White  &  White).     Pleas  of  grnilty.    Fine,  $50  and  costs.
(P. & D. No. 14518.    I. S. No. 377-t.)
On August 15, 1921, the United States attorney for the Eastern 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?
John B. White and Tyler 0. White, copartners trading as White & White,?
Lenapah, Okla., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the Food?
and Drugs Act, on or about July 28, 1920, from the State of Oklahoma into the?
State of Kartsas, of a quantity of eggs which were adulterated. The article was?
labeled in part: (Tag) "From White & White Lenapah, Okla."
Examination, by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department, of the 720 eggs?
in the shipment showed the presence of 104, or 14.44 per cent, of inedible eggs,?
consisting of mixed or white rots, heavy blood rings, blood rots, and chick rots.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that?
it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid animal?
substance.
On February 1, 1923, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the informa??
tion, and the court imposed a fine.of $50 and costs.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.