13551. Adulteration  of  shell  eggs.     V.  S.  v.  Joseph  W.  Williams.  Plea  of
guilty.     Fine, $25 and costs.     (B\ & D. No.  17690.     I.  S.  No.  7617-v.)
On October 31, 1923, the United States attorney for the District of Kansas, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district an information against Joseph 
TV. Williams, Republican City, Nebr., alleging shipment by said defendant, in 
violation of the food and drugs act, on or about November 28, 1922, from 
Atwood, Kans., into the State of Colorado, of a quantity of shell eggs which 
were adulterated. The article was labeled in part: " From Williams, At- 
wood, Ks."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 1,620 eggs 
from the consignment showed that 281 eggs, or 17.34 per cent of those ex- 
amined, 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 part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid animal 
substance.
On January 17, 1924, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa- 
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.