18894. Adulteration of   canned   salmon.    17.   S.   v.  2,487   Cases   of   Canned
Salmon. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Prod- 
uct released under bond. (F. & D. No. 26957. I. S. No. 22332. S. No. 
5172.)
Samples of canned salmon from the shipment herein described having been 
found to be decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter' to 
the United States attorney for the Western District of Washington.
On September 9, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 2,487 cases of canned salmon, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Kadiak Fisheries, from Kodiak, Alaska, on or about July 24, 1931, and had 
been transported from Alaska into the State of Washington, and charging adul- 
teration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On November 3, 1931, the Kadiak Fisheries Co., Kodiak, Alaska, claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry 
of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant, .upon 
payment of costs and the execution of a bond in the sum of $2,000, conditioned 
in part that it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the Fed- 
eral food and drugs act, or other existing laws, and further conditioned that the 
good portion be separated from the cans containing decomposed material, and 
that the portion which was not adulterated be released and the remainder 
destroyed.
AETHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.