19121. Adulteration of  canned salmon.    U.  S. v. 58  Cases  of Medium Red
Salmon. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- 
tion.     (F. & D. No. 26992.    I. S. No. 22356.    S. No. 5210.)
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 September 25, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 58 cases of canned salmon, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped 
on or about August 13, 1930, by the Iverson Packing Co., from Ketchikan, 
Alaska, and had been transported in interstate commerce from the Territory of 
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 consisted 
in whole or in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On February 9, 1932, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemnation 
and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be 
destroyed by the United States marshal.
AETHTTB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.