12470. Adulteration of   shell   eggs.     U.   S.   v.   John   D.   Borden.     Plea   of
guilty.     Fine, $25.     (F. & D. No. 17807.     I. S. No. 698-v.)
On January 16, 1924. the United States attorney for the Western 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 
John D. Borden, Toms Brook, Va., alleging shipment by said defendant, in 
violation of the food and drugs act, on or about July 23, 1923, from the 
State of Virginia into the District of Columbia, of a quantity of shell eggs 
which were adulterated.
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of the 360 
eggs in the consignment showed that 23 eggs, or 6.3 per cent of the total, were 
inedible, consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots, moldy eggs, spot rots, 
and 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 and decomposed and putrid 
animal substance.
On April 29, 1924. the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $25.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.