12073. Adulteration    of   canned   salmon.     V.    S.   v.    135    Cases    of    Canned
Salmon.     Consent   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   de- 
struction.     (F. & D. No.  17851.    I. S. No. 20678-v.     S. No. W-1424.)
On October 8, 1923, 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 praying the- 
seizure and condemnation of 135 cases of canned salmon, at Seattle, Wash., 
alleging that the article had been shipped by the Northwestern Fisheries Co., 
from Nushagak, Alaska, September 4, 1923, and transported from the Territory 
of Alaska into the State of Washington, and charging adulteration in violation* 
of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal sub- 
stance. 
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On November 28, 1923, the Booth Fisheries Co., Inc., claimant, having by 
stipulation agreed to destroy the property, judgment of condemnation, and 
forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be- 
destroyed by dumping it into Puget Sound, under the supervision of this; 
department.
HOWARD M. GORE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.