11687.  Adulteration of shell eggs.     17. S. v. Robert Nelson Stevens (Stevens?
Bros.).     Plea of nolo contendere.     Fine, $25 and costs.     (F. & D. No.
17249.    I. S. No. 1107-v.)
At the March, 1923, term of the United States District Court within and for?
the District of Maryland, the United States attorney for said district, acting?
upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court afore??
said an information against Robert Nelson Stevens, trading as Stevens Bros.,?
Greeneville, Tenn., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food?
and Drugs Act, on or about July 22, 1922, from the State of Tennessee into?
the State of Maryland, of a quantity of eggs which were adulterated.
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 1,440 eggs?
from the 'consignment showed that 112, or 7.7 per cent of those examined, were?
inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed rots, moldy eggs, and heavy 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 April 23, 1923, the defendant entered a plea of nolo contendere to the in??
formation, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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