18256. Adulteration and Misbranding of frozen wbole eggs.     V. S. v. 1,000
Cases of Frozen Whole Eggs. Decree of condemnation and for- 
feiture. Product released under bond. (F. & D. No. 26094. I. S. No. 
27889.    S. No. 4424.)
Samples of canned frozen whole eggs from the shipment herein described
having been found to be decomposed, and the cans having been found to bear
no statement of the quantity of the contents, the Secretary of Agriculture
reported the matter to the United States attorney for the Eastern District of
, Pennsylvania.
On March 24, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the Distriet Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 1,000 cases of frozen whole eggs, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Philadelphia, Pa., consigned by the Ovson Egg Co., 
Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped from Chicago, Ill., on 
or about March 7, 1931, and had been transported from the State of Illinois 
into the State of Pennsylvania, and charging adulteration and misbranding 
in violation of the food and drugs act.   The article was unlabeled.
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.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was food in package 
form and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and conspicuously 
marked on the outside of the package.
On April 1, 1931, A. F. Bickley & Son, Philadelphia, Pa., having appeared as 
claimant for the property, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was 
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the 
said claimant to be relabeled and reconditioned under the supervision of this 
department, upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of 
$6,000, conditioned in part that it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of 
contrary to law.
ARTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.