30309. Adulteration of canned  salmon.    U.  S. v. 450 Cases of Canned Salmon.
Consent decree of condemnation.   Product released under bond.   (F. & D.
No. 44617.    Sample No. 36880-D.)
This product was in part decomposed.
On or about January 11, 1939, the United States attorney for the District of 
Kansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the dis- 
trict court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 450 cases of canned 
salmon at Pittsburg, Kans.; alleging that the article had been shipped in in- 
terstate commerce on or about April 30, 1938, by McGovern & McGovern from 
Bay City, Oreg.; and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act. The article was labeled in part: "Sea North Brand Select Salmon * * * 
Distributed by McGovern & McGovern Seattle."
It was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted wholly or in part of a 
decomposed and putrid animal substance.
On February 13, 1939, Tillamook Bay Fish & Crab Co., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered 
and the product was ordered released under bond, conditioned that it should 
not be disposed of in violation of the laws.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.