£3411. Adulteration of canned salmon. U. S. v. 500 Cases and 500 Cases 
of Salmon. Default decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and 
destruction.     (F.   &   D.   Nos.   18136,   18137.    I.   S.   No.   7381-v.    S.   No.
v^—4^15,)
On December 10, 1923, the United States attorney for the Western District 
-of Tennessee, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district libels praying the seizure 
and condemnation of 1,000 cases of salmon, in part at Martin, Tenn., and in 
part at Union City, Tenn., alleging that the article had been shipped by
McGovern & McGovern, from Seattle, Wash., on or about October 10, 1923, 
and transported from the State of Washington into the State of Tennessee, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part: (Can) "Higrade Brand * * * Pink Alaska Salmon 
Packed In Alaska By Sea Coast Packing Co. Seattle, Wash."
Adulteration of the .article was alleged in the libel for the reason that the 
product consisted wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal 
substance.
On June 3, 1924, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgments 
of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.