13635. Adulteration   of  canned   sardines.     U.   S.  v.   700   Cases   of   Sardines.
Consent decree of destruction entered.     (P. & D. No. 19128.    I. S. No.
18624-v.    S. No. C-4040.) 

On November 7, 1924, the United States attorney for the District of Minne- 
sota, 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 700 cases of sardines, at Duluth, Minn., alleging that the 
article had been shipped by L. D. Clark & Son, from Eastport, Me., August 1, 
1924, and transported from the State of Maine into the State of Minnesota, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. The article 
was labeled in part: (Can) "Banquet Brand American Sardines In Cotton- 
seed Oil Packed at Eastport   *   *   *   Me. By L. D. Clark & Son."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On March 5, 1925, by stipulation entered into between the Government and 
the owners of the product, L. D. Clark & Son, Eastport, Mev, judgment was 
entered by the court, ordering that the said product be destroyed by the 
United States marshal.
?  R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.