81036. Adulteration of frozen eggs. U. S. v. Cudahy Packing Company of Lou- 
isiana, Ltd., Plea of guilty. Fine, S60. (F. & D. No. 42770. Sample 
No. 62412-D.)
This case involved a shipment of frozen eggs which were in part decomposed. 
Samples examined also were found to contain miscellaneous filth, bits of meat, 
and excreta.
On October 12, 1939, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against the Cudahy Packing Company of Louisiana, Ltd., a 
corporation trading at Cuero, Tex., alleging shipment by said defendant in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act on or about April 18, 1939, from the State of Texas 
into the State of Louisiana, of a quantity of frozen eggs that were adulterated. 
The article was labeled in part: "Cudahy's Frozen Sunlight Eggs."
Adulteration was alleged in that the article consisted in whole or in part of 
a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On December 14, 1939, a plea of guilty having been entered on behalf of the 
defendant, the court Imposed a fine of $60.
GBOVEB B. HUX, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.