20835. Adulteration of   shell   eggs.   U.   S.  v.   General  Hardy  Hand.     Plea
of guilty.   Fine, $25.     (F. & D. no. 27480.    I. S. nos. 35499, 35500.)
This action was based on an interstate shipment of shell eggs that were in 
large part decomposed.
On January 2, 1933, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Arkansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States an information against General Hardy 
Hand, of Hand, Ark., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, on or about July 1, 1931, from the State of Arkansas into 
the State of Missouri, of a quantity of shell eggs that were adulterated. The 
article was labeled in part: (Tag) " G. H. Hand, Hand, Ark."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
it consisted in whole and in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal 
substance.
On April 3, 1933, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $25.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.