17258. Adulteration of canned tuna flsb. IT. S. v. 13 Cases of Canned Tuna 
Flsb. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- 
tion.     (F. & D. No. 24424.    I. S. No. 018430.    S. No. 2682.)
On or about January 10, 1930, the United States attorney for the District 
of Colorado, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agricultute, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 13 cases of canned tuna fish, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Denver, Colo., consigned by the Van Camp Sea Food 
Co., East San Pedro, Calif., alleging that the article had been shipped from San 
Pedro, Calif., on or about December 7, 1929, and transported from the State 
of California into the State of Colorado, and charging adulteration in violation 
of the food ari5>drugs act. The article was labeled in part: (Cans) "Van 
Camp's Quality Tuna Light Meat Packed By Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in patt of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On April 28, 1930, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.