18896. Adulteration of canned salmon.     U. S. v. 5,283 Cases of Canned Pink
Salmon, et al. Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. 
Product taken down under bond to be sorted, the good portion 
released and the bad portion destroyed. (F, & D. No. 26995. I. S. 
Nos. 22354, 22355.    S. No. 5209.)
Samples of canned salmon from the shipment herein described having been 
found to be tainted and stale, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the Western District of Washington.
On September 25, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and con- 
demnation of 5,283 cases of canned pink salmon and 376 cases of canned red 
salmon, remaining in the original unbroken packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by R. J. Peratovich, owner and manager of the 
Bay View Packing Co., from Klawock, Alaska, on or about August 24, 1931, and 
had been transported from 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 consisted 
in whole or in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On October 10, 1931, R. J. Peratovich, trading as the Bay View Packing Co., 
Klawock, Alaska, claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel and 
having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and for- 
feiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be released 
to the said claimant upon payment of costs and the execution of a bond in 
the sum of $5,000, conditioned in part that the adulterated portion be separated 
from the unadulterated portion under the supervision of this department, and 
that the article should not be disposed of contrary to law. The decree further 
provided that the bond be canceled upon the production of satisfactory evidence 
that the filthy, decomposed, and putrid portion of the product had been destroyed 
by the claimant in the process of the said separation.
AETHUB M. HYDE. Secretary of Agriculture.