11366.?Adulteration   of   shell   eggs. V.   S.   v.   400   Cases   of   Eggs.     Consent
decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under?
bond.     (P. & D. No. 17098.    I. S. No. 3874-v.     S. No. C-3844.)
On or about December 8, 1922, 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 for the?
seizure and condemnation of 400 cases of eggs, remaining in the original un??
broken packages at Chicago, 111., alleging that the article had been shipped by?
the Missouri Egg & Produce Co. [Missouri Egg & Poultry Co.], Harrisonville,?
Mo., March 10, 1922, and transported from the State of Missouri into the?
State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the?
reason that it consisted in part of a filthy animal substance, for the further?
reason that it consisted in part of a decomposed animal substance, and for?
the further reason that it consisted in part of a putrid animal substance.
On December 15, 1922, George W. Frey, trading as George W. Frey Co.,?
Mendota, 111., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and con??
sented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation s 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 conformity with section 10 of the act,?
conditioned in part that the said product be candled under the supervision?
of this department, the bad portion destroyed and the good portion released.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.