26616. Adulteration of  canned  salmon.     IT.   S. v.  1,Ill   Cases  of Red  Salmon.
Consent decree of condemnation. Product ordered released under bond 
for segregation and destruction of decomposed portion.     (F. & D. no.
38361.    Sample nos. 11242-C, 22344-C.)
This case involved salmon that was in part decomposed.
On September 30, 1936, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 1,Ill cases of 
red salmon at Bellingham, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped in 
interstate commerce on or about August 15, 1936, by the Lowe Trading 
Co., from Ketchikan, Alaska, 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 November 27, 1936, the Lowe Trading Co., claimant, having admitted 
the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered and it was 
ordered that the product be released under bond, conditioned that the unob- 
jectionable codes be segregated, and that the codes containing decomposed 
salmon be reconditioned by separating therefrom and destroying the decom- 
posed portion and reprocessing and labeling as such the good portion.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.