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sale. It is said that the employment of musty eggs is recognizable 

 in passing a bakery where such eggs are being used, and that with 

 the exception of the camphor oil or kerosene Havers, or of musty 

 eggs, all of the various flavors will bake out and give a product 

 which is practically normal in its appearance and flavor. 



The use of dried eggs and of frozen egg contents, even though 

 prepared, as is sometimes the case, from good eggs at seasons when 

 the price is very low, is usually dangerous from the fact that the 

 dried egg requires such a long time for solution with water or milk 

 to bring it to the consistency of normal egg contents as to usually 

 undergo putrefaction to a greater or less extent, by the time it is 

 used. In the case of frozen eggs, the rupturing of the cellular 

 structure by freeziug is accompanied by an increasing tendency to 

 decomposition after thawing, and unless such eggs are used very 

 promptly after bringing to the warm temperature of the bakery, 

 the changes which the mass undergoes are undoubtedly almost as 

 marked as in the egg contents previously described as being ob- 

 tained from "spot" eggs. 



Of egg substitutes, there are none which are equivalent in food 

 value or for cooking purposes, to fresh egg contents. They are 

 usually composed largely of farinaceous or starch materials, fre- 

 quently colored with coal tar color. The use of coal tar color in 

 cakes and other baked articles, to give the appearance of a product 

 in which eggs have been used, is not uncommon, and is unjustifiable 

 in that it tends to. deceive the purchaser by giving an unwarranted 

 appearance of richness. 



In conclusion, it may be said that if cold storage eggs be sold for 

 exactly what tliey are, and if the rejected ''rots" and "spots" be 

 used either for purely technical purposes or else destroyed, the 

 spirit as well as the letter of the law will be complied with, and it 

 will be for the benefit of the public, for the protection of whom 

 food legislation is enacted. 



AN IMPORTANT OPINION OF BELL, J., BLAIR COUNTY, IN 

 THE CASE COMMONWEALTH VS. J. A. ROLLER, ET AL, IN 

 RE. RULE TO SHOW CAUSE WHY PORTIONS OP SAMPLES 

 TAKEN BY THE COMMONWEALTH SHOULD NOT BE 

 TURNED OVER TO DEFENDANTS FOR ANALYSIS. 



IN THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS O'P BLAIR COUNTY. 



Commonwealth 



vs. 

 J. A. Koller, et al. 



In re. rule to show cause why jinrtions of samples taken by the 

 Commonwealth slionld not be turned over to defendants for analysis. 



BY THE COURT: "So far as the rule for a bill of particulars is 

 concerned, as ruled by the Supreme Court in Commonwealth vs. 



