12515. Adulteration   of  shell   egrg-s.    U.   S.  v.  Abner  Offerle  and  Harry  A.
Offierle (Offerle Mercantile Co.). Plea of gruilty by Abner Offerle. 
Fine, $50 and costs.     (F. & D. No.- 17525.     I. S. Nos. 7590-v, 7605-V.)
On September 4, 1923, the United States attorney for the District of Kansas, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district an information against Abner 
Offerle and Harry A. Offerle, copartners, trading as Offerle Mercantile Co., 
Offerle, Kans., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the food 
and drugs act in two consignments, namely, on or about August 22 and October 
10, 1922, respectively, from the State of Kansas into the State of Colorado, of 
quantities of shell eggs which were adulterated. The article was labeled in 
part:  (Case) "from Offerle Mercantile Co., Offerle, Kans."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 1,980 eggs 
from the consignment of August 22 showed that 222, or 11.21 per cent of those 
examined, were inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots, 
moldy eggs, spot rots, and blood rings. Examination by said bureau of 2,700 
eggs from the remaining consignment showed that 306, or 11.33 per cent of 
those examined, were inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white 
rots, spot rots, and blood rings.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On September 25, 1923, an order of the court having been entered allowing 
Abner Offerle to plead for both defendants, a plea of guilty to the information 
was entered, and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.