17749. Adulteration of canned salmon.    U. S. v. 830 Cases of Salmon.     De 
cree   of   condemnation   entered.    Product   released   under   bond.
(F. & D. No. 25184.    I. S. No. 1090.    S. No. 3450.)
Samples of canned salmon from the herein described shipment having been 
found to contain tainted and stale fish,'the Secretary of Agriculture reported 
the matter to the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Washington.
On October 6, 1930, the said United States attorney filed in the District 
Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 830 cases of canned salmon, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Wrangell Narrows Packing Co., from Scow Bay, Alaska, on or about 
August 20, 1930, and had been transported from 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 decomposed animal substance.
On October 10, 1930, the West Sales (Inc.), Seattle, Wash., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having paid costs and executed a 
bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned in part that the product should not be 
sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to law, judgment of condemnation was 
entered, and it was ordered by the court that the said product be segregated 
and reconditioned under the supervision of this department, and the portion 
found fit for food released to the said claimant, and the unfit portion disposed 
of in accordance with the law.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.