8842. Adulteration of canned salmon. U. S. * * * v. 3,000 Cases of?
Canned. Salmon. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and?
destruction.     (F. & D. No. 12680.     Inv. Nos. 19391, 1669o.     S. No. E-2174.)
On May 24, 1920, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland,?
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?
3,000 cases of canned salmon, consigned on or about December 14, 16, and 17,?
1919, alleging that the article had been shipped by the Valdez Packing Co., Ana-?
cortes, Wash., and transported from the State of Washington into the State of?
Maryland, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.?
The article was labeled in part, "Alaska Pink Salmon * * * Packed by?
Valdez Packing Company, Valdez, Alaska * * * Distributed by G. Batchel-?
ler Hall Co., Seattle, U. S. A."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it con??
sisted wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On August 28, 1920, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment?
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.