20220. Adulteration of shell eggs.    U.S. v. 375 Cases, et al., of Shell Eggs.
Consent decree of destruction entered. (P. & D. no. 28696. Sample 
nos. 10321-A, 12026-A.)
This action involved interstate shipments of a quantity of shell eggs which 
were found to contain an excessive amount of decomposed eggs.
On July 18, 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 
condemnation of 397 cases of shell eggs, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Jersey City, N.J., alleging that the article had been shipped, in 
part on or about February 28, 1931, by the Vilas Co., Parker, S.Dak., and in. 
part on or about March 2, 1931. by L. N. Manning, Roodhouse, Ill., and had been 
transported from the States of South Dakota and Illinois, respectively, into 
the State of New Jersey, 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 decomposed and putrid animal substance.
On September 7, 1932, M. Roth & Co., Inc., New York, N.Y., the consignee of 
the product, having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment was entered 
by the court ordering that it be destroyed.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.