14925.?Adulteration   of   shell   eggs.    IT.    S.   v.   James   T.    Oder    (Hastings
Poultry Co.).    Plea of guilty.     Fine, $50.     (F. & D.  No.  19780     I   S?
No. 1407-x.)
On August 9, 1926, 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 James T.?
Oder, trading as the Hastings Poultry Co., Hastings, Nebr., alleging shipment?
by said defendant, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about August?
30, 1925, from the State of Nebraska into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of?
shell eggs which were adulterated.
Analysis by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 10 half cases?
of the article, or 1,800 eggs, showed 366, or 20.3 per cent, inedible eggs.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated, in that it?
consisted in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid animal substance.
On March 14, 1927, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information,?
and the 'court imposed a fine of $50.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.