13228. Adulteration   of   canned   salmon.    IT.   S.   v.   200   Cases   of   Canned
Salmon. Decree entered, providing for release of product under 
bond or for its condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. No. 16080. 
I. S. No. 931-t.    S. No. C-3499.)
On or about November 22, 1921, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Alabama, 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 200 cases of canned salmon, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at Athens, Ala., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by W. R. Beatty Co., from Vancouver, B. C, Canada, on or about 
October 1, 1921, into the State of Tennessee, and that it had been reshipped 
by S. H. Sawrie & Son, from Nashville, Tenn., on or about October 22, 1921, 
into the State of Alabama, and charging adulteration in violation of the food 
and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: (Can) "Kay Square Brand 
Select Pink Salmon Inspected Kenai Packing Co., Seattle, 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 sub- 
stance.
On April 2, 1925, the W. R. Beatty Co., Vancouver, B. C, Canada, and S. H. 
Sawrie & Son, Nashville, Tenn., having appeared as claimants for the property 
and it having appeared to the court that the product was adulterated but that 
the claimants might desire to take it down under bond to be recanned and 
repacked, a judgment of the court was entered, providing that the said product 
might be released to the claimants upon the execution of a bond in the sum of 
$2,000, or upon failure by the said claimants to appear and execute such bond 
within 30 days from the entry of the decree that it be condemned and destroyed 
by the United States marshal and that the claimants pay the costs of the 
proceedings.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.