10933. Adulteration of shell egg-s. IT. S. v. James F. Patterson (Patter??
son's Cash Store). Plea of guilty. Fine, $25. (F. & D. No. 16022.?
I.  S. No. 2360-t.)
On May 25, 1922, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Okla??
homa, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court of the United States for said district an information against James F.?
Patterson, trading as Patterson's Cash Store, McCurtain, Okla., alleging ship??
ment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about?
July 18, 1921, from the State of Oklahoma into the State of Arkansas, of a
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quantity of shell eggs which were adulterated.    The article was labeled  in?
part: " *    *    *    From Pattersons Cash Store, McCurtain, Okla."
Examination, by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department, of the 360?
eggs in the consignment showed 47, or 13 per cent of the total, to be inedible,?
consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots, spot rots, and heavy blood rings.
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 July 28, 1922, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information,?
and the court imposed a tine of $25.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.