13946. Adulteration   of   canned   salmon.     U.   S.   v.   Pioneer   Sea   Foods   Co. 
Plea of guilty.    Fine, $50.     (F. & D. No. 19626.    I. S. No. 7751-v.)
On May 12, 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 Pioneer Sea Foods Co., a corporation, organized under the laws of Wash- 
ington and having a representative within that State, alleging shipment by 
said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about June 30, 
1924, 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 240 cans of the article showed 74 cans, or 30.8 per cent, of decomposed 
salmon.
Adulteration of the article ? was alleged in the information for the reason- 
that it consisted in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid animal sub- 
stance.
On November 11, 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.