13186. Adulteration   of   canned   salmon.    U.   S.   v.   485   Cases   of   Salmon.
Tried to the court. Judgment for the Government. Decree of 
condemnation entered. Product released under bond to he 
salvaged.     (F. & D. No. 17293.    I. S. No. 6120-v.     S. No. C-3902.)
On February 16, 1923, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Alabama, 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 485 cases of salmon, at Birmingham, Ala., alleging thai 
the article had been shipped by the Kelley-Clarke Co., from Seattle, Wash.r 
about December 8, 1922, and transported from the State of "Washington into the 
State of Alabama, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs- 
act. The article was labeled in part: (Can) "Action Brand Pink Salmon Dis- 
tributed By Kelley-Clarke Co. Seattle, Wash.,    *    *    *    Contents 1 Lb."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it con- 
sisted wholly or in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On January 21, 1925, the Southern Alaska Canning Co. having appeared as 
claimant for the property, the case came on for trial before the court. After 
the submission of evidence and arguments of counsel, judgment of condemna- 
tion was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released 
to the claimant upon the execution of a bond in the sum of $1,000, in conform- 
ity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that it be salvaged and the- 
unfit salmon removed from the good salmon, before the said product be again 
placed in interstate commerce as a food for human consumption.
E. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.