18848. Adulteration of  sbell   eggs.    U.  S.  v.   101   Cases  of   Eggs.     Consent
decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 27146.    I. S. No. 25197.    S. No. 5048.)
Samples of eggs from the shipment herein described having been found to be 
decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to the United 
States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
On or about July 28, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 101 cases of eggs, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had heen shipped by the 
Southern Wisconsin Produce Co., from Madison, Wis., July 21, 1931, and had 
been transported from the State of Wisconsin into the State of Illinois, and
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was 
labeled in part: (Stenciled on case) "Dirties;" (tag) "Southern Wisconsin 
Produce Company, Madison, Wis. Schalla & O'Neill, Chicago."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On August-2?, 1931?the Schalla, & O'Neill Co., Chicago, Ill., claimants, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel* and having consented to the entry of a 
decree, judgment of condemnation-and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon 
payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500,. conditioned in 
part that it be candled under the supervision of this department, and should 
notbe sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the
'Federal food and drugs act, 
or other existing law. -   '
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.