16960. Adulteration of   frozen   whole   eggs.     U.   S.   v.   583  Cans   of  Frozen
"Whole Eggs. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 24186. I. S. No. 024279. 
S. No. 2434.)
On October 29, 1929, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of New York, 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 583 cans of frozen whole eggs, remaining in' the original 
unbroken packages at Brooklyn, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Booth Cold Storage Co., from St. Louis, Mo., on or about October 12,1929, 
and transported from the State of Missouri into the State of New York, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was 
labeled in part: " Bowman-Priebe-Ovson Co.   Whole-Mixed Chicago, Illinois."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On November 2, 1929, the Bowman-Priebe-Ovson Co., now by change of name, 
Ovson Egg Co., Chicago, Ill., 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 costs and the execution of a 
bond in the sum of $10,000, conditioned in part that the cans containing good 
eggs be segregated from the remainder and the bad portion destroyed or de- 
natured.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.