12064. Adulteration  of  shell   eggs.    U.   S.  v.  Joseph   Gloster  Velvin.     Plea
of gruilty.     Fine, $50 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 17808.    I. S. No. 5929-v.)
On December 13, 1923, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Oklahoma, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Joseph Gloster Velvin, Swink, Okla., alleging shipment by said defendant, in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about June 25, 1923, from the 
State of Oklahoma into the State of Texas, of a "quantity of shell eggs which 
were adulterated. The article was labeled in part: " From J. G. Velvin 
Swink Okla."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of the 360 eggs 
in the consignment showed that 145, or 40 per cent of those examined, were 
inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots, spot rots, blood 
rings, and enlarged embryos.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid 
animal substance.
On January 19, 1924, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.