20999. Adulteration of canned salmon.    V. S. v. Wrangell Packing Corpo¬
ration.    Plea  of guilty.    Fine, $50 and  costs.     (F.  & D.  no.  29404. 
I. S. nos. 11580, 11581.)
This case was based on an interstate shipment of canned salmon that was in 
part decomposed.
On March 6, 1933, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against the Wrangell Packing Corporation, trading 
at Seattle, Wash., alleging shipment by said company in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, on or about August 2, 1931, from Alaska into the State of 
Washington and subsequently from the State of Washington into the State of 
California, of a quantity of canned salmon that was adulterated. The article 
was labeled in part: " Palace Brand Alaska Pink Salmon * * * Haas 
Brothers, Distributors, San Francisco-Fresno."
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 April 19, 1933, the defendant company, through its secretary, withdrew a 
plea of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty to the information, and the court 
imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
R. G. TUGWEXL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.