10453. Adulteration of   canned   salmon.     U.   S.     *     *     *     v.   700   Cases   of
Canned Salmon. Case snbmitted to the conrt and a jnry. Findinjy 
in favor of the Government. Judgment of condemnation and for- 
feitnre. Product ordered destroyed. (F. & D. No. 13468. I. S. No. 
9154-t.    S. No. E-2728.)
On September 3, 1920, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
South Carolina, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure
and condemnation of 700 cases of canned salmon, at Spartanburg, S. C, alleging 
that the article had been shipped on or about December 22, 1919, by the Burke 
Fish Co., Portland, Oreg., and transported from the State of Oregon into the 
State of South Carolina, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: " Sno-Crest Brand Pink Salmon 
Packed By Burke Fish Co.    *    *    * "
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On July 23, 1921, the matter having come on for hearing before the court and 
a jury, after the submission of evidence, the jury found by its verdict that the 
product was filthy and decomposed as alleged in the libel, and thereupon the 
court entered its order condemning the product and ordering its destruction by 
the United States marshal.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.