5740. Adulteration of shell eggs.    U. S.     *     *     *     v. Wm. P. Buren.     Plea
of guilty.    Fine, $25 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 8033.    I. S. No. 10805-m.)
On March 26, 1917, the United States attorney for the northern district of 
Iowa, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district an information against William P. 
Bureau, Leland, Iowa, alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 25, 1916, from the State of Iowa into 
the State of Minnesota, of a quantity of eggs which were adulterated.
Examination of 6 cases, containing 2,160 eggs, by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this department showed 227 eggs, or 30.5 per cent, to be inedible and de- 
composed.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
it consisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On June 12, 1917, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a tine of $25 and costs.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary <>j Agriculture.