14645. Adulteration   of   sbell  eggs.     U.   S.  v.  25   Cases   of  Eggs.     Consent
decree,  adjudging product  adulterated  and  ordering its  release 
under bond.     (F. & D. No. 20209.    I. S. No. 6324-v.    S. No. C-4770.)
On June 24, 1925, the United States attorney 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 a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 25 cases of eggs, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Neosho, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
A. B.C. Produce Co., Siloam Springs, Ark., on or about June 19, 1925, and 
transported from the State of Arkansas into the State of Missouri, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, decomposed animal substance.
On July 20, 1925, the A. B. C. Produce Co., Siloam Springs, Ark., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented that judg- 
ment might be entered for the condemnation and forfeiture of the product, 
a decree was entered, finding the product adulterated, and it was ordered by 
the court that the said product be released to the claimant upon payment 
of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of 
$1,000, conditioned in part that it be recandled under the supervision of this 
department.
W. M. JAEDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.