26324. Adulteration of canned salmon. U. S. v. 25 Gases of Canned Salmon. 
Default decree of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. no. 37611. 
Sample no. 66850-B.)
This case involved canned salmon which was in part decomposed.
On April 16, 1936, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary if Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 25 cases of canned 
salmon at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about September 14, 1935, from Valdez, Alaska, by the 
First Bank of Valdez, per A. S. Day (packer, A. S. Day, North Pacific Sea 
Foods), 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 September 24, 1936, no claimant having appeared, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered and it was ordered that the product be destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.