11228.?Adulteration of milk.    TJ. S. v. Edgar L. Burdette.     Collateral of 825
forfeited.     (P.  & D. No.  678-c.)
On September 29, 1921, the United States attorney for the District of?
Columbia, acting upon a report by the health officer of the said District, filed?
in the Police Court of the District aforesaid an information against Edgar L.?
Burdette, Washington, D. C, alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation?
of the Food and Drugs Act, on August 20, 1921, from the State of Maryland?
into the District of Columbia, of a quantity of milk which was adulterated.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that a substance, to wit, water, had been mixed and packed therewith so as-?
to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality.
On September 29, 1921, the defendant having failed to enter an appearance,?
the ?25 collateral which had been deposited by him to insure his appearance?
was declared forfeited by the court.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.