21058. Adulteration of canned salmon. IT. S. v. 13 Cases and 26 Cases of 
Canned Salmon. (F. & D. nos. 30004, 30023. Sample nos. 20193-A, 
22929-A.)
These cases involved an interstate shipment of canned salmon which was 
found to be in part decomposed.
On March 28, 1933, the United States attorney for the Northern District of 
California, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 13 cases of canned 
salmon at Stockton, Calif. On March 29, 1933, the United States attorney for 
the Southern District of California filed a libel against 26 cases of canned sal- 
mon at Bakersfield, Calif. It was alleged in the libels that the article had been 
shipped in interstate commerce, on or about September 9, 1932,, by Libby, 
McNeill & Libby, from Seattle, Wash., to San Francisco, Calif., that it had 
been reshipped to Stockton and Bakersfield, Calif., and that it was adulterated 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: 
" Libby's Fancy Bed Alaska Salmon."
The libels charged that the article was adulterated in that it consisted in 
part of a decomposed and putrid animal substance.
On May 16 and May 18, 1933, no claimant having appeared, judgments of 
condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.