5345. Adulteration of shell eggs.   U. S. v. 50 Cases and 250 Gases of Eggs.   ProdŽ
uct ordered released under bond for separation of the good from the bad 
portion. (F. D. C. Nos. 10445, 10518. Sample Nos. 15193-F; 15194-F, 15197-F 
to 15199-F, incl.) 
On August 20 and 28,1943, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of California filed libels against a total of 300 cases of eggs at Los Angeles, Calif., 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about 
August 9 and 15,1943, by the Dickey-Davis Co., from Phoenix, Ariz.; and charging 
that it was adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in part of a decomposed 
substance by reason of the presence of decomposed egg.; The article was labeled 
in part: "Dirty," "Bakers," or "Checks." Twenty-seven of these cases were 
unlabeled.
On August 24 and September 2, 1943, J. M. Davis, W. E. Humphries, and 
J. Earl Stowe, trading under the name of the Dickey-Davis Company, having 
appeared as claimants, and having admitted the allegations of the libels, the 
court entered orders releasing the product under bond of segregation of the 
fit portion from the unfit portion under the supervision of the Food and Drug 
AdnilnistrationT