28120. Adulteration of canned salmon.     IT. S. v. Alaska Year Round Canneries
Co. Plea of guilty. Fine, $205 and costs. (F. & D. No. 39457. Sample 
Nos. 4669-C, 4670-C, 5576-C, 5577-C, 10884-C, 10897-C, 10900-C, 32363-C, 
32380-C.)
This product was in part decomposed.
On June 14, 1937, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against Alaska Year Round Canneries Co., a 
corporation, Seattle, Wash., alleging shipment by the defendant on or about 
July 29 and August 14, 1936, from the Territory of Alaska into the State of 
Washington; on or about September 3, 1936, from the State of Washington 
into the State of Ohio; and on or about August 25, 1936, from the State of Wash- 
ington into the State of Oklahoma of quantities of canned salmon which was 
adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The product shipped 
from Alaska was unlabeled. The other shipments were labeled in part, vari- 
ously: "Edwards Brand Alaska Red Sockeye Salmon Distributed by W. 
Edwards Co. Cleveland"; "Magnolia Brand Red Alaska Sockeye Salmon * * * 
Distributed by the W. Edwards Company, Cleveland"; "Volunteer * * * 
Fancy Red Alaska Sockeye Salmon * * * Packed for Volunteer Stores, 
Incorporated of America Chicago, Illinois"; "Quail Brand * * * Sockeye 
Red Salmon Distributors Ridenour-Baker Mercantile Co. Oklahoma City, Okla."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a decomposed animal substance.
On December 4, 1937, a plea of guilty was entered and the defendant was 
sentenced to pay a fine of $205 and costs.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.