13262. Adulteration  of canned salmon.    U.  S. v. P. E. Harris  &  Co.    Plea
of snilty.     Fine, $50.     (P. & D. No. 19249.    I. S. No. 15054-v.)
On December 18, 1924, 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 an information against 
P. E. Harris & Co., Seattle, Wash., alleging shipment by said company, in viola- 
tion of the food and drugs act, on or about October 29, 1923, from the State of 
Washington into the State of Virginia, of a quantity of canned salmon which 
was adulterated. The article was labeled in part: (Can) " Blanchard Brand 
Alaska Pink Salmon."
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of 96 cans from 
the consignment showed that 25 cans, or 26 per cent, contained decomposed 
salmon.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
it consisted in whole and in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid animal 
substance.
On April 6, 1925, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf of 
the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50.
R. W. DTJNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.