18533. Adulteration of   canned   salmon.     U.   S.   v.   194   Cases   of   Canned
Salmon.     Decree    of    condemnation    entered.    Product    released 
under bond.    (F. & D. No. 26870.    I. S. No. 22327.    S. No. 5057.)
Samples of canned salmon from the shipment herein described having been 
found to be decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to 
the United States attorney for the Western District of Washington.
On August 13. 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 194 cases of canned salmon, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Hood Bay Canning Co., Hood Bay, Alaska, on or about August 27, 1930, and 
had been transported from Alaska into the State of Washington, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It wag alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in whole or in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On August 26. 1931, the Hood Bay Canning Co., Hood Bay, Alaska, having 
appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the allegations of 
the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered.   The claimant having paid
all costs and having filed a bond in the sum of $1,200, conditioned that the 
product should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the provisions 
of the Federal food and drugs act or the laws of any State, Territory, district, 
or insular possession, it was ordered by the court that the product be delivered 
to the said claimant.
ARTHXJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.