12318. Adulteration   of  frozen  eggs.    TJ.   S.  v.   16   Cases   of  Frozen   Kssrs.
Default    fleeree    of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and    destruction.
(F. & D. No. 18166.    I. S. No. 15799-v.    S. No. E-4644.)
On December 14, 1923, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of New York, 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 16 cases, each containing 2 30-pound tins of frozen 
eggs, remaining in the original unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by the Bell-Jones Co. from Davenport, Iowa, 
November 16, 1923, and transported from the State of Iowa into the State of 
New York, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the 
article consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On April 30, 1924, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
HOWABD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.