12114. Adulteration of canned salmon.     U. S. v. 615 Cases of Salmon.     De 
cree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.     Pi-oduct   released   under 
bond.     (F. & D. No. 17766.    I. S. No. 8390-v.     S. No. W-1415.)
On or about September 21, 1923, the United States attorney for the Northern 
District of Illinois, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the 
seizure and condemnation of 615 cases of salmon, at Chicago, Ill., alleging that 
the article had been shipped by J. G. Megler & Co., from Portland Oreg., July 
24, 1923, and transported from the State of Oregon into the State of Illinois, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article 
was labeled in part: (Can) "Mascot Brand * * " Salmon Packed At 
Brookfield    *    *    *    Wash.    *    *    *    J. G. Megler & Co."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On December 14, 1923, Nellie B. Megler, trading as J. G. Megler & Co., 
Brookfield, Wash., claimant, having admitted/the allegations of the libel and 
consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture 
was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released to 
the said claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execu- 
tion of a bond in the sum of $1,000, in conformity with section 10 of the act, 
conditioned in part that it be separated or reprocessed under the supervision 
of this department, the bad portion destroyed and the good portion released.
C. F. MARVISI, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.