13617. Adulteration of canned salmon.    IT. S. v. Hetta Paelting Co.    Plea of
guilty.    Fine, $50.     (F. & D. No. 18743.    I. S. No. 12069-v.)
On April 9, 1925, 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 
the Hetta Packing Co., a corporation, trading at Seattle, Wash., alleging ship- 
ment by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act. on or about 
September 28, 1923. from the Territory of Alaska into the State of Washington, 
of a quantity of canned salmon which was adulterated.
Examination by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department of a sample 
of 288 cans showed that 105 cans, or 36.4 per cent, contained decomposed 
salmon.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid animal 
substance.
On June 1, 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. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.