27508. Adulteration of canned salmon.     IT.  S.  v. 255   Cases,  et  al., of  Canned
Salmon. Decrees of condemnation. Product released under bond for 
segregation and destruction of decomposed portions. (F. & D. nos. 37711, 
37738.   Sample nos. 55189-B, 55190-B, 55191-B, 55198-B.)
These cases involved canned salmon that was in part decomposed.
On May 5 and May 15, 1936, the United States attorney for the Eastern 
District of Michigan, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 905 
cases of canned salmon at Detroit, Mich., alleging that it had been shipped 
in interstate commerce by the New England Fish Co. in part on or about 
February 26, 1936, from Portland, Oreg., and in part through the agency of 
the Luckenbach Steamship Co. from New York on or about April 2, 1936, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. A portion of 
the article was labeled: "Advance Brand Columbia River Salmon * * * 
Packed and Guaranteed by New England Fish Company, Seattle, Washington." 
The remainder was labeled in part: "Seacraft Brand Columbia River Salmon."
It was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part 
of a decomposed animal substance.
On July 7, 1937, the New England Fish Co., Seattle, Wash., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libels, judgments of condemnation were entered 
and the product was ordered released under bond conditioned that the portion 
unfit for human consumption be destroyed, and the portion fit for human con- 
sumption be reprocessed and labeled "Reprocessed."
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.