19008. Adulteration of   canned   salmon.    tJ.   S.   v.   125   Cases   of   Canned
Salmon. Decree of condemnation entered. Product released 
under bond.     (F. & D. No. 27036.     I. S. No. 11580.     S. No. 5250.)
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 Southern District of California.
On October 5, 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 125 cases of canned salmon at Fresno, Calif., alleging that the 
article had been shipped in interstate commerce, on or about August 12, 1931, 
by McGovern & McGovern, from Seattle, Wash., to San Francisco, Calif., and 
had been reshipped to Fresno, Calif., on or about August 19, 1931, and that it 
was adulterated in violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled 
in part: (Can) "Palace Brand Alaska Pink Salmon * * * Haas Brothers, 
Distributors, San Francisco, Fresno."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On November 25, 1931, the Wrangell Packing Co., Seattle, Wash., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having executed good and 
sufficient bonds, conditioned in part that the product should not be sold or 
otherwise disposed of contrary to the Federal food and drugs act or other 
existing laws, judgment was entered ordering the product condemned as adul- 
terated. The decree further ordered that the said product be released to the 
claimant for the purpose of segregating for destruction all that part which con- 
sisted of bad fish, such segregation to be made at claimant's expense, and under 
the supervision of this department
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.