12677. Adulteration of dried whole eggs.    U. S. v. 39 Barrels    *    *    *.    (F. D. C.
No. 23980.   Sample No. 14438-K.)
LIBEL FILED :   November 25, 1947, Northern District of Illinois.
ALLEGED SHIPMENT: On or about October 9, 1947, by Rothenburg & Schneider 
Bros., from New York, N. Y.
PRODUCT: 39 100-pound barrels of dried whole eggs at Chicago, Ill. Examina- 
tion showed that the product was contaminated with feather fragments, wood 
fibers, and brush bristles.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (a) (3), the article consisted in 
whole or in part of a ULthy substance and was otherwise unfit for food.
DISPOSITION: December 16, 1947. Rothenburg & Schneider Bros. Co., Chicago, 
111., claimant, having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and the product was ordered released under bond for the 
purpose of segregating the good eggs from the bad and,converting the bad eggs 
into stock feed by denaturing, under the supervision of the Federal Security 
Agency.