14747. Adulteration   of   canned   salmon.     TJ.   S.   v.   14,250   Cases,   et   al.,   of
Canned Salmon. Consent decrees of condemnation and forfei- 
ture. Product released under bond, (F. &. D. Nos. 21308, 21309. I. S. 
Nos. 11103-v, 11104-v.    S. Nos. W-2026, W-2031.)
On October 5, 1926, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon. 
acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district libels praying seizure and condemnation 
of 26,900 cases of canned salmon, remaining in the original unbroken packages 
at Portland, Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Alaska 
Portland Packers Assoc, in part from Naknek, Alaska, and in part from Nusha- 
gak, Alaska, on or about August 9. 1926. and transported from the Territory 
of Alaska into the State of Oregon, and charging adulteration in violation of 
the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated, in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance, 
and in that filthy, decomposed, and putrid salmon, had been substituted for 
normal salmon of good commercial quality.
On October 21 and November 26, 1926, respectively, the Alaska Portland 
Packers Assoc, having appeared as claimant for the property, judgments of 
condemnation and forfeiture were 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 bonds totaling $100,000, conditioned in 
part that it not be sold or otherwise disposed of until it had been reconditioned 
in a manner satisfactory to this department.
W. M. JAKDIKE, Secretary of Agriculture.
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