12724. Adulteration   of   canned   salmon.     V.   S.   v.   1,015   Cases   of   Salmon.
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- 
leased nader bond. (F. & D. No. 14210. I. S. No. 10558-t. S. No. 
W-836.)
On January 20, 1921, 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 1,015 cases of salmon, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Olympic Fisheries Co., from Ketchikan, Alaska, on or about August 
28, 1920, and transported from the Territory of Alaska into the State of Wash- 
ington, 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.
On June 23, 1924, the Olympic Fisheries Co., claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel 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 $1,000, in con- 
formity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be sorted under 
the supervision of this department, the bad portion destroyed and the good 
portion released to the said claimant.
HOWAED M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.