11415.?Adulteration   of  shell   eggs.    TJ.   S.  v.  400  Cases  of Eggs.     Consent
decree of condemnation and  forfeiture.     Product  released  under-?
bond.    (F. & D. No. 17112.    I. S. No. 3847-v.    S. No. C-3857.)
On or about December 21, 1922, the United States attorney for the Northern?
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed?
in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure?
and condemnation of 400 cases of eggs, remaining in the original unbroken?
packages at Chicago, 111., alleging that the article had been shipped by the?
Boring Produce Co., Clinton, Okla., June 3, 1922, and transported from the
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State of Oklahoma into the State of Illinois;  and (charging adulteration  in?
violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for tht?
reason that it consisted in part of a filthy animal substance, for the further?
reason that it consisted in part of a decomposed animal substance, and for?
the further reason that it consisted in part of a putrid animal substance.
On December 26, 1922, Herman Rothenberg, Chicago, 111., claimant, having?
admitted the material allegations of the libel and consented to the entry of a?
decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was?
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon?
payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the?
sum of $1,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part?
that it be candled under \the supervision of this department, the bad portion?
?destroyed and the good portion delivered to the claimant.
O. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.