14525. Adulteration   of   canned   salmon..    ,U.   S.   v.   3,942   Cases   of   Salmon.
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. JProduet re- 
leased, the gooil portion for human food and the adulterated 
portion  for   ehiclcen   feed.      (F. .&? D.  No.   19042.   .;E   S.  Nos.  20249-v,
20250-v.     S. No. W-1594.)     .-?,<?..-^   .   ;   ;..;?    ...??..   r.rr.   ?...;   :;v-   ..-?     ,;
On October 3, 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 a libel praying. seizure 
and condemnation of 3,942 cases of salmon, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
Libby, McNeill and Libby, from Egegik,,. Alaska, August 11, 1924^; and trans- 
ported from the Territory of Alaska into,the State of "Washington,'and charg- 
ing adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. ?/;<_-   -,,.
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 13, 1925, Libby, McNeill and Libby, claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel and having consented to the condemnation' of the 
product, judgment was entered, finding, the article adulterated. The product 
having theretofore been sorted and the good,portion released for human con- 
sumption and the adulterated portion released under bond in the. sum, of $1,250, 
conditioned in part that it be used as chicken feed, it was ordered by the 
court that the adulterated portion not be sold or disposed of contrary to lawr 
and upon the submission of evidence that it had , been used for chicken feed 
that the bond be discharged. 
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W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.