12532. Adulteration   of   shell   eg-gs.     V.   S.   v.   George   E.   Butler.    Plea   of
guilty.    Fine, $100.     (F. & D. No. 17418.    I. S. No. 8851-t.)
On June 26, 1922, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
North Carolina, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district an information 
against George E. Butler, Greensboro, N. C, alleging shipment by said de- 
fendant, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about June 26, 1922, from 
the State of North Carolina into the State of Virginia, of a quantity of shell 
eggs which were adulterated. The article was labeled in part: " From G. E. 
Butler   *    *    *    Greensboro, No. Carolina."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 1,080 eggs 
from the consignment showed that 145, or 13.4 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 the article consisted in whole or in part of a filthy and decomposed and 
putrid animal substance.
On June 2, 1924, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $100.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.