11359. Adulteration of frozen mixed eggs. U. S. v. 172 Crates of Frozen?
Mixed Eggs. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture.?
Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 17274. I. S. No. 4176-v.?
S.  No.  C-3880.)
On or about February 9, 1923, the United States attorney for the Northern?
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed?
in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying'the?
seizure and condemnation of 172 crates of frozen mixed eggs, remaining unsoLd?
in the original unbroken packages at Chicago, 111., alleging that the article?
had been shipped by Westcott & Winks [Wescott & Winks], from Sumner,?
Iowa, August 25, 1922, and transported from the State of Iowa into the?
State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
consisted wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal sub??
stance.
On March 8, 1923, Wescott & Winks, claimant, having admitted the material?
allegations in the libel and consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of?
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the product be released to the said claimant upon payment of the costs?
of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, in con??
formity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that the product be?
sorted under the supervision of this department, the bad portion destroyed and?
the good portion released.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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