15690. Adulteration of frozen wliole egg-s. XT. S. v. 416 Crates of Canned?
Frozen Whole Eggs. Consent decree of condemnation and for??
feiture. Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 22611. I. S. No.?
20958-x.     S. No. 638.)
On or about March 10, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of?
New Jersey, 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 416 crates of canned frozen whole eggs at Jersey City, N. J.,?
alleging that the article had been shipped by the Utah Ice & Storage Co., Salt?
Lake City, Utah, on or about February 10, 1928, and transported from the?
State of Utah into the State of New Jersey, and charging adulteration in vio??
lation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: (Stencil on?
can) " Brookfield Frozen Eggs   *    *    *    Swift & Company   *    *    *    Chicago."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con??
sisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On March 26, 1928, Swift & Co., Chicago, 111., claimant, having admitted the?
allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment?
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the product be released to the said claimant upon payment of the costs of?
the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $11,000, conditioned?
in part that it be salvaged by separating the good eggs from the bad and de??
stroying or denaturing the latter.
W. M, JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.