27650. Adulteration of canned salmon.    V. S. v. 500 Cases of Canned Salmon. 
Portion   of  product  condemned  and   destroyed.     Remainder   released.
(F. & D. No. 39196.    Sample No. 21728-C.)
This product was in part decomposed.
On March 16, 1937, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
Missouri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 500 cases of canned 
salmon at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate 
commerce on or about October 13,1986, by Wesco Foods Co. from San Francisco, 
Calif., and charging adulteration In violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The 
article was labeled in part: (Cans) "North Bay Brand Pink Salmon Distributed 
by Wesco Foods Co. General Offices Cincinnati, Ohio."
It was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or In part of a. 
decomposed animal substance.
On May 19, 1937, the Ocean Packing Co., Seattle, Wash., claimant, having 
petitioned the court for permission to open the cases and segregate the cans 
according to codes, an order was entered granting such petition. On August 16, 
1937, the claimant having filed an answer admitting the allegations of the libel 
insofar as certain codes were concerned, judgment was entered condemning and 
ordering destruction of said codes, which embraced 227 cases and 87 cans of 
the product.   The remainder was ordered released.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.