18840. Adulteration of shell eggs. U. S. v. 172 Cases of Eggs. Consent 
decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under- 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 27142.    I. S. No. 36509.    S. No. 5124.)
Samples of eggs from the shipment herein described having been found to 
be decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United- 
States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
On or about August 14, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 172 cases of eggs, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been shipped by Herbert 
Schultz and Ervin Kroening, from Springfield, Minn., July 30, 1931, and had 
been transported from the State of Minnesota into the State of Illinois, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On September 5, 1931, Karsten & Sons, Chicago, Ill., claimants, having ad- 
mitted 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 $1,000, conditioned 
in part that it be reselected under the supervision of this department, and. 
should not be sold or disposed of contrary to the Federal food and drugs act,, 
or the laws of any State, Territory, district, or insular possession.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.