14810. Adulteration of salmon. U. S. v. 1,402 Cases of Salmon. Consent de- 
cree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond.    (F. & D. No. 21251.    I. S. No. 10703-x.    S. No. W-2004.)
On August 20, 1926, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 1,402 cases of salmon, remaining in the original unbroken pack- 
ages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped by the Pioneer 
Seafood Co., from Cordova, Alaska, July 16, 1926, and transported from the 
Territory of Alaska into the State of Washington, and charging adulteration in 
violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On December 4, 1926, the Puget Sound Salmon Packing Co., Seattle, Wash., 
claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and having 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 execution of a bond in 
the sum of $1,000, conditioned in part that it be reconditioned under the super- 
vision of this department.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.