18981. Adulteration of  canned   salmon.    IJ.   S.  v.   New  England   Fish   Co.
Plea of grullty. Fine, $50 and costs. (F. & D. No. 26582. I. S. No. 
2242.)
Samples of canned salmon from the shipment herein described having been 
found to be tainted or stale, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the Western District of Washington.
On September 16, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States for the district aforesaid an information against the New 
England Fish Co., a Maine corporation, trading at Seattle, Wash., alleging 
shipment by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about 
September 22, 1930, from Alaska into the State of Washington, of a quantity 
of canned salmon which was adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
it consisted in whole and in part of a filthy and decomposed and putrid animal 
substance.
On October 26,1931, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant company, and the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.