19332. Adulteration of   canned   salmon.     V.   S.   v.   168   Cases   of   Canned
Salmon.   Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruc- 
tion.    F. & D. No. 25817.    I. S. No. 15727.    S. No. 3977.)
Samples of canned salmon from the shipment herein described having been 
found to be decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to 
the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
On January 26, 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 168 cases of canned salmon, remaining in the original and 
unbroken packages at Fall River, Mass., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by the F. A. Gosse Co., from Seattle, Wash., on or about August 29. 
1930, and had been transported in interstate commerce from the State of 
Washington into the State of Massachusetts, and charging adulteration in 
violation of the food and drugs act. The article was labeled in part: (Cans) 
"Plymouth Brand Pink Salmon * * * Packed for National Wholesale 
Grocery Co., Inc., Fall River and New Bedford, Mass."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On August 17, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
AETHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.