14710. Adulteration of canned salmon.    U. S. v. 450 Cases of Salmon.     Con 
sent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released 
under bond. (F. & D. No. 19209. I. S. Nos. 21455-v, 21463-v, 21467-v. 
S. No. C-4551.)
On November 28, 1924, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Michigan, 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 450 cases of salmon, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Lansing, Mich., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Ward's 
Cove Packing Co., from Prince Rupert, British Columbia, August 25, 1924, and 
that it had been shipped in interstate and foreign commerce into the State of 
Michigan, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The 
article was labeled in part:   (Can)   "Ward's Cove Pink Salmon Packed by
Ward's Cove Packing Co.   Ketchikan, Alaska." 
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On March 3, 1926, the Ward's Cove Packing Co., claimant, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be released to the said claimant upon payment of the costs of 
the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $4,500, in conformity 
with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that the product be salvaged, the 
portion unfit for human food destroyed, and the remainder released.
W. M..JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture,