023!-). Adulteration of canned salmon, U. S. * * * v. 397J Cases of 
Canned Salmon * * *. Consent decree of condemnation and 
forfeiture.     Product ordered released on bond for sorting-.     (F. & D.
No.   12897.    I.  S. No.   10105-t.     S. No.  W-G40.)
On July 30, 1920, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel, and thereafter 
an amended libel, praying the seizure and condemnation of 397! cases of canned 
salmon, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by the Alaska Fish Co., Waterfall, Alaska, 
on September 29, 1919, and transported from the Territory of Alaska into the 
State of Washington, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "Seaketch Brand Pink Salmon 
Packed in Alaska by Alaska Fish Co., Seattle, Wash., U. S. A."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal 
substance.
On September 15, 1920, P. E. Harris & Co., claimant for a portion of the 
goods, having admitted the allegations of .the libel and having consented to a 
decree, and on September 14, 1920, the American Oriental Sales Corporation, 
Seattle, Wash., having entered an appearance as claimant for the balance of 
the goods, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, arm it was 
ordered by the court that the product be delivered to said claimants upon 
payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of bonds in the ag- 
gregate sum of $2,000 by the respective claimants, in conformity with section 
10 of the act, said bonds being conditioned in part that the product be sorted 
under the supervision of this department and the bad portion destroyed.
E. D. BALI,, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.