13244. Adulteration    of   canned   salmon.     V.   S.   v.   998   Cases    of   Salmon.
Product   ordered   released   under   bond   to   be   used   as   fertilizer.
(F. & D. No. 15925.    I. S. No. 935-t.    S. No. 03387.)
On November 22, 1921, the United States attorney for the Eastern District 
of Tennessee, 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 998 cases of salmon, at Athens, Tenn., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by W. R. Beatty & Co., Vancouver, B. C, 
Canada, on September 22, 1921, and transported in interstate commerce, and 
charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part: (Can) "Kay-Square Brand Select Pink Salmon In- 
spected Kenai Packing Co. Seattle, Wash.," (case) "4 Dozen 1 Pound Tails 
Pink Salmon, Packed by Kenai Packing Co., Drier Bay, Alaska."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in large, part, if not wholly, of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid 
animal substance, unfit for human consumption.
On March 16, 1925, the Jim Anderson Co., Knoxville, Tenn., claimant, hav- 
ing represented to the court that it was impossible to recondition the product 
to the satisfaction of this department so that it would be fit for consumption 
as food, judgment of the court was entered, ordering that the said product 
be released to the claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings 
and the execution of a good and sufficient bond, to be sold or disposed of 
as fertil'zer.
R. W. DTJNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.