19002. Adulteration of   canned   salmon.    U.   S.  v.   1,588   Cases,   et   al.,   of
Canned Salmon. Consent decrees of condemnation and forfei- 
ture. Product released under bond. (F. & D. Nos. 26929. 26969. I. S. 
Nos. 22331, 22335.    S. Nos. 5142, 5185.)
Samples of canned salmon from the shipments 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 or about September 1 and September 16, 1931, the United States attorney 
filed in the District Court of the United States for the district aforesaid libels 
praying seizure and condemnation of 5,035 cases of canned salmon, remaining 
in the original unbroken packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by the Kadiak Fisheries Co., from Kodiak, Alaska, in part 
on or about July 24, 1931, and in part on or about August 15, 1931, and had 
been transported from Alaska into the State of Washington, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act. A portion of the article 
was labeled in part: (Case) " Packed by Kadiak Fisheries Co., Kodiak, Alaska, 
Seattle, Washington."
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On November 3, 1931, the Kadiak Fisheries Co., Seattle, Wash., claimant, 
having admitted the allegations of the libels and haying consented to the entry 
of decrees, judgments of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be delivered to the said claimant upon 
payment of costs and the execution of bonds totaling $4,500, conditioned 
in part that it be sorted under the supervision of this department in order to 
separate the good portion from the decomposed portion, and further conditioned 
that it should not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the provisions of 
the Federal food and drugs act, or the laws of any State, Territory, district, or 
insular possession. The decrees further ordered that upon compliance with the 
conditions of the bonds, the unadulterated portion be released and the re- 
mainder destroyed.
ABTHTDB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.