12430. Adulteration of   shell   eggs.    V.  S.   v.  David   Alexander   Fry,  John \
Witt Fry, and  Eugene David Fry (Fry Produce Co.\.    Plea  of I
guilty.    Fine, $30.     (F. & D. No. 172481    I.  S. No.  1104-v.) 
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On April 2, 1923, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of l
Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the S
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
David Alexander Fry, John Hewitt Fry, and Eugene David Fry, copartners, 
trading as Fry Produce Co., Greenville, Tenn., alleging shipment by said del j
fendants, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about July 21, 1922, from 
the State of Tennessee into the State of Maryland, of a quantity of shell eggs 
which were adulterated.
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 1,440 eggs 
from the consignment showed that 179, or 12.4 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. 
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On September 25, 1923, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on- 
behalf of the defendant firm, and the court imposed a fine of $30 and costs.
HOWAED M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.