11963. Adulteration   of   canned   salmon.     U.   S.   v.   1,000   Cases   of   Canned
Salmon. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Prod- 
uct released under bond to be sorted. (F. & D. No. 16916. I. S. 
No. 7877-v.    S. No. W-1231.)
On November 10, 1922, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district a libel praying the seizure and condemna- 
tion of 1,000 cases of canned salmon, at Astoria, Oreg., delivered for shipment 
from the State of Oregon into the State of Florida, alleging that the article 
had been sold, shipped, and consigned from Astoria, Oreg., by the Warrenton 
Clam Co., Astoria, Oreg., November 3, 1922, and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Aci. The article was labeled in part: " Choice 
Columbia River * * * Salmon Contents 151 Oz. Beaver Brand * * * 
Packed By D. Hansen Packing Co. Hammond,- Oregon."
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 sub- 
stance, and for the further reason that a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal' 
substance, to wit, salmon, had been substituted- for normal salmon of good 
commercial quality.
On or about November 1, 1923, the Union Fishermen's Cooperative Packing 
Co., a corporation organized under the laws of Oregon, having appeared as
claimant for the property and consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of 
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that 
the product be released to the said claimant upon payment of the costs of the 
proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $4,000, in conformity 
with section 10 of the act, conditioned in, part that it be sorted under the 
supervision of this department, the bad 'portion disposed of to the Oregon 
State Fish Commission for fish food and the good portion released to the 
claimant.
C. F. MABVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.