7764. Adulteration, of Egg O La ~Egg Powder. U. S. * * * v. Gandolfo- 
Ghio Mfg. Co., ft Corporation. Plea of guilty to count 1 of 13xe in- 
formation. Fine, $25 autl costs. Count 2 of information dis- 
missed.     (F. & B. No. Q655.    L S. No. 1211T-p.>
On September 9, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information in 2 
counts against the Gandolfo-Ghio Mfg. Co., a corporation, St. Louis, Mo., alleg- 
ing shipment by said company in the first count of said information, in violation 
of the Pood and Drugs Act, on or about March 15, 1918, from the State of 
Missouri into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of an article, labeled in part 
" Egg O La Egg Powder," which was adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed it to consist largely of cornstarch artificially colored with 
Tartrazine.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a substance, to wit, cornstarch, had been mixed and packed therewith 
so as to lower and reduce and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and 
had been substituted in part for "Egg O La Egg Powder," to wit, .an egg sub- 
stitute composed of powdered egg, which the article purported to be. Adultera- 
tion .was alleged for the further reason that the product was an article inferior 
to an egg substitute, that is to say, inferior to an article 1 level, ^teaspoonful 
$>f which dissolved in 2 tablespoonfuls of cold water equals one egg, or to an.
article that could be used the same as any [other] egg in any recipe which calls 
for a whole egg, to wit, a mixture composed in part of cornstarch and arti- 
ficially colored so as to simulate the appearance of a product composed in part 
of eggs, in a manner whereby its inferiority to a product composed in part of 
eggs was concealed.
On October 21, 1919, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant corporation, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and 
costs.   The second count of the information was dismissed.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.