8518.?Adulteration of eggs.   U.S.   *  '*   *   v* James W. Hatchett (Hatchett Bros.).   Plea of
guilty.   Fine, SIS,and costs.   (F. &.D. No. 11995.. J. S.Nos. 9440-r, 9?8r-r,,). .
On March 9, 1920, the United States attorney-for the Eastern District of-Arkansas,?
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of
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the United States for said district an information against James W. Hatchett, trading?
as Hatchett Bros., at Clinton, Ark., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation?
of the Food and Drugs Act, from the State of Arkansas into the State of Missouri,?
on or about July 7, and July 9, 1919, of quantities of shell eggs which were adulter??
ated.
Examination of representative samples of the article from each shipment made by '?
the Bureau of Chemistry of this department showed 14 per cent and 15.1 per cent,?
respectively, of inedible eggs.
Adulteration of the article in each shipment was alleged in the information for?
the reason that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid?
animal substance.
On April 14, 1920, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, and?
the court imposed a fine of $15 and costs.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,