16478. Adulteration of   shell   eggs.    U.   S.   v.   15   Cases   of   Eggs.    Default 
order  of   destruction   entered.     (F.  &  D.  No.  23613.    I.   S.   No.  01309.
S. No. 1813.)
On March 2, 1929, the United States attorney for the District of Minnesota, 
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 15 cases of eggs at Minneapolis, Minn., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by George Berzel, from Dickinson, N. Dak., on or about Febniary 15, 
19291, and transported from the State of North Dakota into the State of Min- 
nesota, 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 
in whole or in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On April 12, 1929, no claimant having appeared for the property, upon the 
execution of an affidavit by the assistant United States attorney that the 
product was wholly unfit for consumption as food, it was ordered by the court 
that the said product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of AffriculPure.