14769. Adulteration of   canned   Sainton.    IT.   S.   v.   4,967   Cases   of   Salmon.
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- 
leased under bond. (F. & D. No. 21307. I. S. No. 12648-x. S. No. 
W-2025.)
On October 2, 1926, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, 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 4,967 cases of salmon, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped by 
the Naknek Packing Co., in interstate commerce from Bristol Bay, Alaska, 
into the State of California, arriving at San Francisco on or about August 
20, 1926, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. 
The article was labeled in part: (Can) "Radium Brand Red Alaska Red 
Salmon Packed By Naknek Packing Co. At Naknek River, Bristol Bay, Alaska 
U. S. A. Office:   San Francisco, Cal."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On October 22, 1926, the Naknek Packing Co., San Francisco, Calif., having 
appeared as claimant for the property 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 $24,835, conditioned in part that it be made to conform with the law 
under the supervision of this department.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.