25439. Adulteration of canned salmon. IT. S. v. 251 Cases of Canned Salmon. 
Consent decree of condemnation. Product released under bond for 
segregation and destruction of decomposed portion. (F. St D. no. 36441. 
Sample no. 49730-B.)
This case involved canned salmon which was in part decomposed.
On September 28, 1935, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court of libel praying seizure and condemnation of 251 cases of canned 
salmon at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about August 10, 1935, by the C. M. Everitt Co., 
from Seattle, Wash., and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act.
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a decomposed animal substance.
On October 18,1935, the Puget Fisheries, a Washington corporation, claimant, 
having admitted the allegation of the libel and having consented to the entry 
of a decree, judgment of condemnation was entered and it was ordered that 
the product be released to the C. M. Everitt Co., distributor for the claimant, 
under a bond conditioned that it be shipped to Seattle for examination under 
the supervision of this Department, that the portion unfit for human consump- 
tion be destroyed and that the good portion be labeled to show that it was 
packed by the Puget Fisheries.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.