21342. Adulteration and Misbranding of dried egg yolk.    U. S. v. Carl O.
Basbaw.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $40.     (F. & D. no. 30148.    I.S. nos. 
15515, 15516.)
This case was based on shipments of egg yolk that contained reducing sugars.
On June 23, 1933, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against Carl O. Bashaw, president of the Brawle- 
y Co., San Francisco, Calif., alleging shipment by said defendant on or 
about October 18, 1930, from the State of California into the State of New York 
of quantities of egg yolk that was adulterated and misbranded. The article 
was invoiced: (Portion) "Spray Egg Yolk", (remainder) "Yolk Spray 
Process." Certain cases were labeled: " Tip Top Brand Bashaw Arey Co. 
*   *    *    San Francisco, Calif."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that a 
product composed in part of reducing sugars had been substituted for the 
article; and in that it was a product inferior to spray egg yolk, or yolk spray 
process, namely, a product composed in part of reducing sugars, and was 
colored with coal tar dyes, Tartrazine S.J. and Orange I S.J., so as to simulate 
the appearance of spray egg yolk and yolk spray process, and in a manner 
whereby its inferiority to said product was concealed.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was composed in 
part of reducing sugars, artificially colored, prepared in imitation of spray egg 
yolk and yolk spray process, and was offered for sale and sold under the 
distinctive name of another article.
On July 11, 1933, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $40.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.