21034. Adulteration of canned salmon. U. S. v. 1,490 Cases and 1,731 Cases 
of Canned Salmon. Portions of product released uncondition- 
ally. Decrees condemning and forfeiting remainder and order-, 
trig- its release under bond for separation and destruction of unfit 
portion. (F. & D. no. 31113. Sample nos. 55278-A, 55279-A, 55287-A, 
55288-A.)
These cases involved shipments of canned salmon identified by various code 
marks.   Samples taken from certain of the codes were found to be decomposed.
On September 15, 1933, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the district court libels praying seizure and condemnation of 3,221 cases of 
caned salmon at Seattle, Wash., 'alleging that the article had been shipped 
in interstate commerce in part on or about July 15, 1933, and in part on or 
about July 23, 1933, by the Alaska Year Round Canneries Co., from Seldovia, 
Alaska, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On September '20, 1933, the Alaska Year Round Canneries Co. having ap- 
peared as claimant for the property, judgments were entered ordering that the 
product, with the exception of certain codes which were admitted to be in 
part decomposed, be released unconditionally. The decrees further ordered 
that the portions of the product which had been found to be in part decom- 
posed, which consisted of 1,059 cases and 39 cans, be condemned and for- 
feited, and ordered that they be delivered to the claimant upon payment of 
costs and the execution of bonds totaling $2,000, conditioned that the decom- 
posed salmon be segregated and destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,