11571.?Adulteration  of shell eggs.     17. S. v.  koren  I/.  Spencer and Lonis B.
Spencer  (Spencer Bros.).     Pleas of guilty.    Fine, 82.     (F. & D. No.
16016.     I. S. No. 11004-t.)
On July 5. 1922, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court?
of the United States for said district an information against Loren L. Spencer?
and Louis B. Spencer, copartners, trading as Spencer Bros., Wallace, Nebr.,?
alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act,?
on or about August 1, 1921, from the State of Nebraska into the State 'of Colo??
rado, of a quantity of shell eggs which were adulterated. The article was labeled?
in part: " From Spencer Bros. Wallace Nebr."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 900 eggs from?
the consignment showed that 102, or 11.3 per cent of those examined, were?
inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots, moldy eggs, spot rots,?
and blood rings.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that?
it consisted in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid animal substance.
On June 11, 1923, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the information,?
and the court imposed a fine of $2.
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.