11648. Misbranding [adulteration] of shell eggs. U. S. v. 376 Cases of Shell?
Eggs.    Decree ordering release  of product under bond.     (F.  & D.
No. 17222.    I. S. No. 1460-v.    S. No. E-4302.)
On or about February 5, 1923, the United States attorney for the Eastern?
District of Virginia, 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 376 cases of shell eggs, remaining unsold in the?
original packages at Norfolk, Va., alleging that the article had been shipped?
by the Eastern States Refrigerating Co., from Hoboken, N. J., on or about?
December 5, 1922, and transported from the State of New Jersey into the State?
of Virginia, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
It was alleged in substance in the libel that the said shell eggs were?
adulterated in violation of section 7 of the Food and Drugs Act, in that they?
were ammoniated.
On April 16, 1923, the consignor of the product having authorized delivery?
thereof to the Puritan Tanners Egg Yolk Mfg. Co, judgment of the court was?
entered finding the product to be misbranded [adulterated], and it was ordered?
by the court that it be delivered to the said Puritan Tanners Egg Yolk Mfg. Co.?
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.
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.