20530. Adulteration of   canned   salmon.    V.   S.   v.  Pioneer   Sea  Foods   Co.
Plea of nolo contendere.    Fine, 850 and costs.     (F. & D. no. 27550. 
I. S. nos. 22371, 22373.)
This action was based on the interstate shipment of a quantity of canned 
salmon, samples of which were found to be decomposed.
On November 1, 1932, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid an informa- 
tion against the Pioneer Sea Foods Co., a corporation, Seattle, Wash., alleging 
shipment by said company, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about 
August 30, 1931, and September 2, 1931, from the Territory of Alaska into 
the State of Washington, of quantities of canned salmon that was adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
it consisted in whole and in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal 
substance.
On November 30, 1932, a plea of nolo contendere to the information was 
entered on behalf of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of 
$50 and costs.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.