8172. Adulteration ?iul misbranding- of Eggoe. V. S. * -" * * "v. Victor E.?
Soderauist ami Alvin T. Sode'r?inist (The Eggoe Co.). Plea of?
guilty. Fine, Sj?25 and costs. (F. & D. No. 11341. I. S. Nos. 15713-p,?
15714-p.)
On February 14, 1920, the United States attorney for the Southern District of?
Iowa, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District?
Court of the United States for said district an information against Victor E.?
Soderquist and Alvin T. Soderquist, trading as The Eggoe Go., Marshalltown,?
Iowa, alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the Food and Drugs?
Act, on or about March 2, 1918, from the State of Iowa into the State of South?
Dakota, of a certain quantity of an article of food, labeled in part " Eggoe,"?
which was adulterated and misbranded.
Examination of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed that the product was a mixture of cornstarch, wheat flour,?
and egg albumen, colored with tartrazine and orange I.
Adulteration of. the article was alleged in the information in that the article?
was artificially colored in a manner whereby its inferiority was concealed.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in that it was labeled so as to deceive?
and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it was an egg substitute and was?
composed-of substances and ingredients essentially the same as those of eggs,.,?
whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not an egg substitute, nor was it composed;?
of substances and ingredients essentially.the same as those of eggs. The article?
was further misbranded in that the said statements were false and misleading?
in that they represented the article to be an egg substitute and as composed of?
substances and ingredients essentially the, same as those of eggs, whereas, in?
truth and in fact, it was not an egg substitute, and was not.composed of sub??
stances and ingredients essentially the same,as those of eggs.
On May 6, 1920, the defendants pleaded guilty to the information, and the?
court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.?
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.