20626. Adulteration of canned salmon.    U. S. v. 98 Cases of Canned Salmon.
Default    decree    of    condemnation,    forfeiture,    and    destruction.
(P. & D. no. 28978.    Sample no. 25018-A.)
This action involved the shipment of a quantity of canned salmon, a large 
portion of which was tainted or stale.
On September 30, 1932, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying 
seizure and condemnation of 98 cases of canned salmon, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at San Francisco, Calif., alleging that the article 
had been shipped on or about August 15, 1932, by the Bristol Bay Packing Co., 
from Kvichak, Alaska, to San Francisco, Calif., 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 part of a decomposed animal substance.
On January 25, 1933, 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.
R. G. TUGWELL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.