11745. Adulteration of shell eggs. tT. S. v. William R. Davis. Plea of 
guilty.    Fine, $10.     (P. & D. No. 17076.    I. S. No. 1001-v.)
On March 10, 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 an information against
William R. Davis, Haynesville, Va., alleging shipment by said defendant, in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 26, 1922, from the State 
of Virginia into the State of Maryland, of a quantity of shell eggs which 
were adulterated.
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 360 eggs 
from the consignment showed that 32, or 8.88 per cent of those examined, 
were inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots, spot rots, 
and heavy blood rings.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal 
substance.
On April 2, 1923, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $10.
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.