3077.?Adulteration of canned salmon.   TJ. S. v. 24 Cases of Salmon.   Default decree of con?
demnation, forfeiture, and destruction.   (F. & D. No. 5168.   S. No. 1780.)
On April 19, 1913, the United States attorney for the District of Indiana, acting?
upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United?
States for said district a libel for the seizure and condemnation of 24 cases, each con??
taining 24 cans of salmon, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and?
in possession of the International Grocery Co., a corporation, Indianapolis, Ind.,?
alleging that the product had been shipped from the State of Missouri into the State?
of Indiana, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The?
product was labeled: "4 doz. tails Archer Brand Alaska Salmon. Packe'd for A.?
B. Field & Co., Inc., Agents.    San Francisco."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason that it consisted?
in part of a filthy, putrid, and decomposed animal substance.
On September 26, 1913, the case having come on to be heard on the libel and the?
decree pro confesso theretofore entered, and the court having considered the same,
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judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered and it was ordered that the?
product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.?
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 14, 1914-