20059. Adulteration of  canned  salmon.     U.S.  v.  Libby,  McNeill  & Libby.
Plea of guilty. Fine, $500. (F. & D. No. 26668. I.S. Nos. 1098, 1188, 
1189, 1334, 1335, 1339.)
This action was based on the manufacture and shipment of canned salmon, 
samples of which were found to be tainted or stale.
On July 11,1932, the United States attorney for the District of Alaska, acting 
upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the 
United States for the district aforesaid an information against Libby, McNeill 
& Libby, a corporation, trading at Karheen, Alaska, alleging that on or about 
August 10, 1930, the said defendant had manufactured a quantity of canned 
salmon that was adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, and that 
on or about September 12,1930, the defendant company had shipped from Alaska 
into the State of Washington a quantity of adulterated canned salmon, in 
further violation of the said act. The article was labeled in part: "Happy- 
Vale Brand Pink Salmon Emery Food Co., Chicago."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
it consisted in whole and in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid animal 
substance.
On September 7, 1932, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on 
behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $500.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.