18990. Adulteration of   canned   salmon.    V.   S.   v.   l,SOO   Cases,   et   al.,   of
Canned Salmon. Consent decrees of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product released under bond. (F. & D. Nos. 27034, 27053, 27054. I. S. 
Nos. 22365, 22366, 22367, 22368, 22369.    S. Nos. 5249, 5274, 5287.)
Samples of canned salmon from the shipments 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 5, October 7, and October 8, 1931, the United States attorney filed 
in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid libels pray- 
ing seizure and condemnation of 7,860 cases of canned salmon, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at Seattle, Wash., consigned by the Independent 
Salmon Canneries (Inc.), alleging that the article had been shipped from 
Ketchikan, Alaska, in various consignments, on or about August 4, August 10, 
and August 18, 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 libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On October 26, and December 21, 1931, the Independent Salmon Canneries 
(Inc.), Seattle, Wash., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel 
and having consented to the entry of decrees, judgments of condemnation and 
forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be 
released to the said claimant upon payment of costs and the execution of bonds 
totaling $3,000, conditioned in part that it be made to comply with the law 
under the supervision of this department, and. further conditioned that it 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 possession of the 
United States.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.