16019. Adulteration of canned sardines.    TJ. S. v. 680 Cases, et al., of Sar 
dines. Decrees of forfeiture entered. Product released under 
bond.     (P. & D. No. 23011.    I. S. Noa 02241, 02317, 02318.     S. ,No. 1094.)
On August 23 and September 6, 1928, respectively, the United States attorney 
for the Southern District of Georgia, acting upon a report by the Secretary 
of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said district 
libels, and on August 25, 1928, an amendment to the former of said libels, pray- 
ing seizure and condemnation of 716 cases of sardines, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages in part at Savannah, Ga., and in part at Brunswick, Ga., 
alleging that the article had been shipped by the Van Camp Sea Food Co., in 
part from Los Angeles, Calif., December 6, 1927, and in part from Wilmington, 
Calif., February 27, 1928, and transported from the State of California into 
the State of Georgia, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and 
drugs act. The article was labeled in part: " White Star Brand Tinapa 
Sardines * * * Originated and packed by exclusively Yan Camp Sea Food 
Co., Inc., Los Angeles Harbor, Califoriiia, U. S. A."
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, or putrid animal substance.
On October 13, 1928, the Van Camp Sea Food Co., Los Angeles, Calif., having 
appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the allegations of 
the libels, judgments of forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product be released to the said claimant upon payment of costs 
and the execution of bonds totaling $3,250, conditioned in part that it be sorted 
and reconditioned under the supervision of this department, and the portion 
unfit for food be destroyed.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.