12915. Adulteration   of   canned   salmon.     U.   S.   v.   1,200   Cases   of   Canned
Salmon. Consent decree of condemnation. Product released 
under bond to be salvaged. (P. & D. No. 18548. I. S. Nos. 4907-v, 
4915-v.    S. No. C-4329.)
On April 19, 1924, the United States attorney for the Middle 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 1,200 cases of canned salmon, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Clarksville, Tenn., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by Jones and Williams, Seattle, Wash., on or about September 15, 
1923, and transported from the State of Washington into the State oC 
Tennessee, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. 
The article was labeled in part: (Case) " Tomah Brand Salmon Packed by 
Bellingham Canning Co., Bellingham, Wash."
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 
substance.
On October 8, 1924, the Bellingham Canning Co., Bellingham, Wash., having 
appeared as claimant of the property, judgment of condemnation 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 $6,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act, con- 
ditioned in part that the bad portion be separated from the good portion under 
the supervision of this department, and the bad portion destroyed.  .
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.