14840. Adulteration of canned salmon.    V. S. v. 3,625 Cases of Pink: Salmon.
Consent   decree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.     Product   re- 
leased   under   bond.     (F.   &   D.   No.   21502.    I.   S.   No.   980-x.    S.   No 
W-2079.)
On December 24, 1926, 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 3,625 cases of canned salmon, remaining unsold at Seattle, 
Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Pacific American Fish- 
eries, from Katalla, Alaska, August 21, 1923, and had been transported from 
the Territory of Alaska into the State of Washington, and charging adulteration 
in violation of the food and drugs act.
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, and putrid animal substance.
On January 24, 1927, the Buttnick Mfg. Co., Seattle, Wash., 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 $10,000, conditioned in part that it be reconditioned under the super- 
vision of this department.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.