21130. Adulteration of   canned   salmon.     V.   S.   v.   Kadiak   Fisheries   Co.
Plea of guilty. Fine, $50 and costs. (F. & D. no. 28182. I. S. nos. 
34725, 36201, 38907.)
This case was based on interstate shipments of canned salmon, samples of 
which were found to be decomposed.
On January 16, 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 Kadiak Fisheries Co., a corporation, 
Seattle, Wash., alleging the interstate shipment of various lots of canned salmon 
which had been guaranteed by the defendant company as complying with the 
Federal Food and Drugs Act, and which were in fact adulterated. The infor- 
mation alleged that the E. H. Hamlin Co., Seattle, Washington., had shipped 
on or about August 14, 1931, from the State of Washington into the State of 
Pennsylvania, and on or about September 4, 1931, from the State of Washington 
into the State of Massachusetts, quantities of canned salmon; that the R. E. 
Cotter Co. trading at Seattle, Wash., had shipped on or about August 15, 
1931, from the State of Washington into the State of California, and thence 
into the State of Kansas, a quantity of canned salmon; that the defendant 
company, prior to said shipments, had delivered to the said shippers invoices
containing a guaranty that the product was not adulterated or misbranded 
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act; that the article was adulterated, and 
that the defendant company was amenable to prosecution and the penalties 
which, but for said guaranty, would have attached to the shippers. The article 
was labeled in part, variously: " Uncle Sam Brand Pink Alaska Salmon Packed 
by Kadiak Fisheries Co., Kodiak, Alaska Office-Seattle, Wash."; "Criterion 
Alaska Salmon * * * Kadiak Fisheries Co., KFC Kodiak, Alaska"; "I. 
G. A. Brand Pink Salmon * * * Packed for Independent Grocers Alliance 
Distributing Co., Chicago, Illinois."
The information charged that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in part of a decomposed animal-substance.
On May 23, 1933, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.