11749. Adulteration of shell eggs.    V. S. v. 117 Cases of Egrgrs.    Consent de 
cree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond to be candled. (F. & D. No. 17731. I. S. No. 4245-v. S. No. 
C-4076.)
On July 23, 1923, 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 praying the seizure 
a.nd condemnation of 117 cases of eggs, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Yiroqua Hide & Fur Co., Viroqua, Wis., July 16, 1923, and transported from the 
State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged 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 July 25, 1923, the Glickman & Gross Commission Co., Chicago, Ill., 
claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and consented to the 
entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation 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 product be candled under the supervision of this department, 
the bad portion destroyed and the good portion delivered to the said claimant.
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.