17267. Adulteration of   canned   tuna.     XT.   S.   v.   10   Cases   of   Canned   Tuna.
Default    decree    of   condemnation,   forfeiture,    and    destruction.
(F. & D. No. 24423.    I. S. Nos. 019208. 019209.    S. No. 2681.)
On January 8, 1930, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon, 
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 con- 
demnation of 10 cases of canned tuna, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Portland, Oreg., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Halfhill Packing Corporation, from Wilmington, Calif., on or about Decem- 
ber 12, 1929, and transported from the State of California into the State of 
Oregon, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. 
The article was labeled in part: (Cans) "Halfhill's California Flaked Tuna 
Light Meat * * * Packed by Halfhill Pkg. Corpn. Inc. Longbeach, 
California."
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 May 12, 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.
ARTHTTR M. HTDE, Secretary of Agriculture,