16277. Adulteration of   shell   eggs.      U.   S.   v.   Earl   1,.   Campbell.     Plea   of
guilty.    Fine, $25.     (F. & D. No. 22563.    I. S. Nos. 13161-x, 13162-x.)
On August 14, 1928, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district an information against Earl L. Campbell, 
Benkelman, Nebr., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the food 
and drugs act, on or about January 16, 1928, from the State of Nebraska into 
the State of Colorado, of a quantity of shell eggs which were adulterated. 
The article was labeled in part: "From B. L. Campbell Produce Benkelman, 
Nebraska."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that it 
consisted in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid animal substance.
On March 5, 1929, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $25.
ABTHTJK M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.