12746. Adulteration of shell egg's.     U. S. v. Norfolk Poultry Co., a Corpora 
tion.     Plea of guilty.     Fine, $5.     (P. & D. No. 18583.     I. S. No. 7025-v.)
On June 24, 1924, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district an information against the Nor- 
folk Poultry Co., a corporation, Plainview, Nebr., alleging shipment by said 
company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about July 18, 1923, 
from the SCate of Nebraska into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of shell 
eggs which were adulterated.
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 1,800 eggs 
from the consignment showed that 192, or 10.67 per cent of those examined, 
were inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed 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 22, 1924, a plea of guilty to the information was entered 
on behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $5.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.