18977. Adulteration of   canned   salmon.    XJ.   S.   v.   1,022   Cases   of   Canned
Salmon.     Decree     of    condemnation     entered.     Product     released 
under bond.     (F. & D. No. 27189.    I. S. No. 12790.    S. No. 5361.)
Samples of canned salmon from the shipment herein described having been 
found to be tainted or stale, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the Western District of Washington.
On October 29, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of 
the United States for the district aforesaid a libel, and subsequently an amended 
libel, praying seizure and condemnation of 1,022 cases of canned salmon, remain- 
ing in the original unbroken packages at Seattle, Wash., consigned by the 
Ketchikan Packing Co., from Ketchikan, Alaska, on or about August 25, 1931. 
It was alleged in the libel as amended that the article had been shipped from 
Ketchikan, Alaska, into the State of Washington, and that it was adulterated 
in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel as amended for the reason 
that it consisted in whole or in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On November 19, 1931, the Ketchikan Packing Co., an Alaska corporation, 
having appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the allega- 
tions of the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered. The said claimant 
having paid costs and executed a bond in the sum of $3,000, conditioned that 
the product should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the Federal 
food and drugs act, or the laws of any State, Territory, district, or insular pos- 
session, the court ordered the product released to the claimant.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.