26853. Adulteration of canned  salmon.     U.  S. v. Walter Waters and Archie F.
McMillan    (Lighthouse   Packing   Co.).     Pleas    of   guilty.    Fines,   $24 
and costs.     (F. & D. no. 38004.    Sample nos. 34772-B, 61740-B, 62284-B.)
This case involved canned salmon that was in part decomposed.
On December 16, 1936, 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 Walter Waters and Archie F. McMillan, 
copartners, trading as the Lighthouse Packing Co., Point Roberts, Wash., alleg-
ing shipment by said defendants through and in the name of their broker and 
agent, on or about November 16 and December 12, 1935, from the State of Wash- 
ington into the States of Texas, Pennsylvania, and California of quantities of 
canned salmon that was adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. 
It was labeled in part: (Can) "Pink Referee Salmon * * * Distributed by 
Dehn & Co. Inc. Seattle, Wash."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in part of 
a decomposed animal substance.
On December 29, 1936, the defendants entered pleas of guilty and the court 
imposed fines in the total amount of $24 together with costs.
W. R. GBEGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.