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the Department regards as adulterated. It is not the practice of 

 the Department, however, to base proceedings under the Food 

 and Drugs Act on shipments of eggs unless there are present 

 larger percentages of bad eggs than are ordinarily present in 

 recognized commercial grades of candled eggs. The Department 

 is informed that cases of eggs are not allowed to receive even 

 the lowest candled egg grades if the cases contain more than one 

 and one-half dozen or 5 per cent of bad eggs. Country shippers 

 who are not certain of the freshness of their eggs should candle 

 them before shipping them in interstate commerce. • 



Bad Eggs Must Be Denatured. 



Eggs which are adulterated may be shipped in interstate or 

 foreign commerce for use in tanning or other technical ways 

 without violating the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act only 

 if they are first denatured so as to render them incapable of be- 

 ing used for food. Since it is impracticable to denature eggs in 

 the shell, adulterated shell eggs must be broken out and denatur- 

 ed prior to shipment. The views of the Department with re- 

 spect to the denaturing of eggs are stated in Bureau of Chem- 

 istry Service and Regulatory Announcements No. 7, paragraph 

 19, and No. 12, opinion 102. 



