18906. Adulteration of   canned   frozen   whole   eggs.     U.   S.   v.   2B9   Cans   of
Frozen Whole Eggs. Decree entered by consent. Product taken 
down under bond to be sorted; good portion released and bad 
portion destroyed or denatured. (P. & D. No. 27047. I. S. No. 38711. 
S. No. 5283.)
Samples of canned frozen whole 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 District of New Jersey.
On October 7,1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of the 
United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and condemna- 
tion of 259 cans of frozen whole eggs, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Jersey City, N. J., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
Kadane Brown, from Dallas, Tex., on or about September 30, 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: "Whole Eggs American Albumen Corporation Frozen 
Eggs   *    *    *   New York-Dallas."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed and putrid animal substance.
On October 21, 1931, the Pacific Commonwealth Corporation of California, 
New York, N. Y., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and 
having consented that a decree be entered condemning and forfeiting the 
product, judgment was entered ordering that the said product be released to 
tiie claimant upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of 
$1,500, conditioned in part that the cans containing bad eggs be separated 
from the cans containing good eggs, under the supervision of this department, 
and that the cans set aside as containing decomposed material be destroyed or 
denatured so that they could not be used for food.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of.Agriculture.