13400. Adulteration  of shell  e??g:s.    TJ.  S.  v. Bristol Produce  Co.     Plea  of 
guilty.    Fine, #iOO.    (F. & D. No. 19585.    I. S. No. 18348-v.)
On February 19, 1925, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Virginia, 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 Bristol Produce Co., a corporation, Bristol, Va., alleging shipment by said 
company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about August 20, 1924, 
from the State of Virginia into the State of North Carolina, of a quantity of 
shell eggs which were adulterated. The article was labeled in part: " Bristol 
Produce Co."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 1,080 eggs 
from the consignment showed that 136. or 12.6 per cent of those examined, 
were inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, advanced mixed rots, moldy eggs, 
heavy spot rots, and heavy blood rings.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
it consisted in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid animal substance.
On April 13, 1925, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $100.
C. F. MAKVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.