18614. Adulteration of frozen whole eggs.    IT.  S. v. 1,200 Cans, et al., of
Froxen Whole Eggs. Product ordered released under bond to be 
salvaged and relabeled. (F. & D. Nos. 26002, 26027. I. S. Nos. 20420, 
20421, 20422, 20423, 20424.    S. Nos. 4261, 4286, 4287, 4303, 4333.)
Samples of canned frozen eggs from the shipments herein described having 
been found to be decomposed and to contain added whites, the Secretary of 
Agriculture reported the matter to the United States attorney for the District 
of New Jersey.
On March 9 and March 13, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid libels praying seiz- 
ure and condemnation of 6,400 cans of frozen whole eggs, remaining in the orig- 
inal unbroken packages at Jersey City, N. J., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corporation, from Dallas, Tex., in various 
consignments, on or about February 4, February 5, and B^ebruary 6, 1931, and 
had been transported from the State of Texas into the State of New Jersey 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part: (Tag) "Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corporation * * * 
Dallas, Texas.   Whole Eggs."
Adulteration was alleged in the libel filed with respect to' a portion of the 
article for the reason that it > consisted in part of a decomposed animal sub- 
stance, and with respect to the remainder for the reason that it consisted in 
part of a decomposed and putrid animal substance.
On June 8, 1931, William W. Johnstone, claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of decrees condemn- 
ing and forfeiting the product, judgments were entered ordering that the 
product be delivered to the said claimant upon payment of costs and the 
execution of bonds totaling $25,000, conditioned in part that it be sorted, the 
unfit portion destroyed or denatured, and that the good portion, after inspec- 
tion and approval by this department, be relabeled "Whole Eggs with Added 
Whites," and released.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.