17435. Adulteration of  canned   sardines.    TJ.   S.   v.   469   Cases   of   Sardines.
Product ordered released under bond to be reconditioned.     (F. &
D. No. 23995. I. S. No. 011053. S.-No. 2269.)
Samples of canned sardines from the shipment herein described having been 
found to be decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the facts to the 
United States attorney for the Eastern District of Texas.
On September 9, 1929, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and condemna- 
tion of 469 cases of sardines, remaining in the original unbroken packages at 
Beaumont, Tex., alleging that the article had been shipped by L. D. Clark & 
Son of Eastport, Me., from New York, N. Y., and had been transported, on or 
about May 22, 1929, from the State of New York into the State of Texas, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part: " Banquet Brand American Sardines * * * Packed at 
Eastport "Washington Co. Me., by L. D. Clark & Son."
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 April 9, 1930, L. D. Clark & Son, Eastport, Me., having appeared as claim- 
ant for the property and having admitted the allegations of the libel, a decree 
was entered ordering that the product be released to the said claimant upon 
payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $100, conditioned 
in part that it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to law. It 
was further ordered by the court that the product be reconditioned by the 
removal and destruction of all decomposed fish.
' ABTHTTB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.