12969. Adulteration   of   shell   eg-g-s.     U.   S.   v.   the   McDonald   Co-Operative
Equity Mercantile Exchange, a Corporation. Plea of gruilty. 
Fine, $25.     (F. & D. No. 18330.    I. S. No. 5356-v.)
On October 9, 1924, 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 the Mc- 
Donald Co-operative Equity Mercantile Exchange, a corporation, McDonald, 
Kans., alleging shipment by said company, in violation of the food and drugs 
act, on or about August 21, 1923, from the State of Kansas into the State of 
Nebraska, of a quantity of shell eggs which were adulterated. The article 
was labeled in part: " McDonald Equity Exch McDonald Kansas."
Examination of 540 eggs from the consignment by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this department showed that 103 eggs, or 19 per cent of those examined, 
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 part of a filthy and putrid and decomposed animal sub- 
stance.
On December 1, 1924, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.