12686. Adulteration of canned salmon.    IT. S. v. 480 Cases of Salmon.    De 
fault decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. &
D. No. 17874.    I. S. No. 4671-v.    S. No. C-4131.)
On October 25, 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 a libel praying the seizure 
and condemnation of 4S0 cases of salmon, at Memphis, Tenn, alleging that the 
article had been shipped by the Sanitary Fish Co. and P. E. Harris & Co., 
from Anacortes, Wash., on or about August 28, 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) "Double " Q" Select Pink Salmon * * * Distributed By P. E. 
Harris & Co. Seattle, Wash."
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.
On September 9, 1924, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the 
product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
HOWABD M. GOBE, Secretary of Agriculture.