18888. Adulteration of canned salmon. U. S. v. 688 Cases of Canned Red 
Salmon. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Prod- 
uct taken down under bond, the good portion released and the 
bad portion destroyed. (F. & D. No. 26985. I. S. No. 22352. S. No. 
5193.)
Samples of canned salmon from the shipment herein described having been 
found to be stale and tainted, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the Western District of Washington.
On September 22, 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 588 cases of canned -red salmon, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Bay View Packing Co., Klawock, Alaska, on or about August 16, 1931, 
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 filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On October 10, 1931, R. P. Peratovich, trading as the Bay View Packing Co., 
JKlawock, Alaska, claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and 
having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and for- 
feiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be re- 
leased to the said claimant upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond 
in the-sum of $1,000, conditioned in part that the good portion be separated 
from the bad portion under the supervision of this department, and that the 
article should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to law. The decree 
further provided that the bond be canceled upon the furnishing by claimant of 
satisfactory evidence that the portion of the product which was adulterated, 
filthy, decomposed, and putrid had been destroyed in the process of the said 
.separation.
ABTHUB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.