3120.?Adulteration of canned salmon.   U. S. v. 28 Cases of Canned Salmon.
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.    (F. & D.
No. 5245.     S. No. 1835.)
On June 6, 1913, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of?
Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis??
trict Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and?
condemnation of 28 cases of so-called Alaska salmon, remaining unsold in the?
original unbroken packages and in possession of the United Retail Merchant?
Grocer Co., Peoria, 111., alleging that the product had been shipped on Decem??
ber 12, 1912, by the Merchants National Grocer Co., St. Louis, Mo., and trans??
ported from the State of Missouri into the State of Illinois, and charging?
adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The product was labeled:?
(On cases) "Archer Brand Salmon (Design of Indian with Bow and Arrow?
shooting at a fish) Alaska Salmon packed for A. B. Field and Co. Inc. Agents?
San Francisco." (On cans) "Alaska Salmon red A. B. Field and Co., Inc. Dis??
tributors San Francisco Archer Brand (Design of Indian with Bow and?
Arrow)."
Adulteration of ijie product was alleged in the libel for the reason that the?
article consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed and putrid ani??
mal substance and of portions of fish unfit for food.
On August 5, 1913, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment?
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 21, 1914.
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