15537. Adulteration of  frozen   mixed   e^gs.     U.   S.   v.   TO   Cases   of   Frozen
Mixed Eggs.     Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and de- 
struction.     (F. & D. Mo. 21978.     1. S. No. 19360-x.    S. No. 21.)
On July 16, '1927, 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 praying seizure and 
condemnation of 79 cases of frozen mixed eggs, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Chicago, III., alleging that the article had been shipped
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by  the Dickerson Produce Co.,  from Knoxville,  Iowa,  between the dates of
March 29, 1927, and June 27, 1927, and transported from the State of Iowa
into the State of Illinois, and charging adulteration in violation of the food
and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it consisted
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in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
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On October 21, 1927, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment
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of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.