20069. Adulteration of canned frozen eggs.    U.S. v.  1,506  Cans  of Frozen
Eggs. Product ordered released under bond to be salvaged, and 
unfit portion destroyed. (F. & D. No. 28439. Samples Nos. 11007-A, 
11008-A.)
This action involved shipments of canned frozen eggs, samples of which 
were found to be in part decomposed.
On June 29, 1932, the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 1,506 cans of frozen eggs, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Jersey City, N.J., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about May 16, 1932, by Standard Brands, Inc., from 
East St. Louis, Ill., to Jersey City, N.J., and charging adulteration in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: " Fleischmann's 
Spring Laid Whole Eggs Frozen * * * Distributed by Standard Brands, 
Inc., New York City."
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.
The Standard Brands, Inc., New York, N.Y., interposed a claim, admitted 
the allegations of the libel, and consented to the entry of a decree condemning 
and forfeiting the goods. On July 11, 1932, a decree was entered providing for 
release of the property, upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in 
the sum of $5,000, conditioned that the product be salvaged by sorting out, 
separating and destroying, or denaturing for technical uses, all cans containing 
bad eggs; and that the cans containing only good eggs be disposed of in com- 
pliance with the Federal Food and Drugs Act and all laws, Federal and State.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.