14647. Adulteration of sliell eggs.    17.  S. v. Anderson Produce  Co.     Judg 
ment confessed.    Fine, $10 and costs.     (F. & D. No. 17237.    I. S. No. 
3864-v.)
On April 21, 1923, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the Anderson Produce Co., a corporation, Milan, Mo., alleging shipment by 
said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about August 19, 
1922, from the State of Missouri into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of 
shell eggs which were adulterated.
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 1,440 eggs 
from 8 half cases showed 378, or 26.25 per cent, inedible eggs.
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 sub- 
stance.
On May 1, 1923, the defendant company having confessed judgment, a fine of 
$10 and costs was imposed.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.