12579. Adulteration of shell eggs.     U. S. v. Albert Reimold.     Plea of guilty.
Pine, $10 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 17425.    I. S. No. 3931-v.)
On September 12, 1923, the United States ettorney for the Western District 
of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Albert Reimold, Maitland, Mo., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation 
of the food and drugs act, on or about August 4, 1922, from the State of Mis- 
souri into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of shell eggs which were adulter- 
ated.   The article was labeled in part: " From Albert Eeimold, Maitland, Mo."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 1,260 eggs 
from the consignment showed that 191 eggs, or 15 per cent of those examined, 
were inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed rots, blood rings, and spot 
rots.
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 March 4, 1924, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.