21715. Adulteration of   canned   salmon.      U.   S.   v.   214   Cases   of   Canned
Salmon.     Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture.    Prod- 
uct released under bond.     (F. & D. no. 30737.    Sample no. 37654-A.)
This case involved a shipment of canned salmon, variously coded. Samples 
taken from one of the codes were found to be decomposed.
On July 17, 1933, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court 
a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 214 cases of canned salmon 
at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about January 13, 1931, by R. E. Cotter Co., from Seattle, 
Wash., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. 
The article was labeled in part: (Cans) "Seaprize Brand Pink Select 
Alaska  Salmon.    *   •*    *    Distributed by R. E. Cotter Co.  Seattle,  Wash."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On November 16, 1933, Frey & Son, Inc., Baltimore, Md., having appeared 
as claimant for the property and having admitted the allegations of the libel, 
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by 
the court that the product be released to the claimant upon payment of costs 
and the execution of a bond in the sura of $200, conditioned that it should 
not be disposed of in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. All decomposed 
salmon was segregated under the supervision of this Department and destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.