19412. Adulteration of   canned   salmon.    V.   S.   v.   52   Cases   of   Canned
Salmon. Consent decree of condemnation. Product released 
under bond. (F. & D. Nos. 27408, 27413. I. S. Nos. 45737, 45738. S. Nos. 
5617, 5618.)
Samples of canned salmon from the shipment herein described having been 
found to be partly decomposed, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter 
to the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri.
On December 21, 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 52 cases of canned salmon, remaining in the original and unoroken 
packages at St. Louis, Mo., alleging that the article had been shipped on or 
about November 2, 1931, by Libby, McNeill & Libby, from Seattle, Wash., and 
had been transported in interstate commerce from the State of Washington into 
the State of Missouri, and charging adulteration in violation of the food and 
drugs act. The article was labeled in part: (Can) "Happy-Vale Brand Pink 
Salmon   *    *    *   Packed for Emery Food Co., Chicago, U. S. A."
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in part of a decomposed animal substance.
On February 2, 1932, the Emery Food Co., Chicago, Ill., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was 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 a bond in the sum of 
$400, conditioned in part that it should not be sold or disposed of contrary 
to the provisions of the Federal food and drugs act, and all other laws. It 
was further ordered by the court that the portion of the product which was 
found to be fit for human consumption be released, and that the unfit portion be 
disposed of as directed by this department.
AETHXJB M. HTDB, Secretary of AffHculture.