12469. Adulteration of  shell  eggs.     U.  S.  v. "Wyatt Ervin Akers  and  Cary
P. Painter (W. E. Alcers & Co.).     Plea of guilty.    Fine, $25.     (F. &
D. No. 17075.    I. S. No. 1108-v.)
On February 23, 1923, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Wyatt Ervin Akers and Cary P. Painter, copartners, trading as W. E. Akers 
& Co., Honaker, Va., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of 
the food and drugs act, on or about July 27, 1922, from the State of Virginia 
into the District of Columbia, of a quantity of shell eggs which were adul- 
terated.
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 900 eggs 
from the consignment showed that 101 eggs, or 11.2 per cent of those examined, 
were inedible eggs, consisting of black rots, mixed or white rots, moldy eggs, 
and spot rots.
Adulteration of the article 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 October 11, 1923, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on be- 
half of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.