26713. Adulteration of canned salmon.   V. S. v. 273,1,000, 3,000, and 1,000 Gases
of Canned Salmon.    Decrees of condemnation.    Product released under 
bond for segregation and destruction of decomposed portion.    (F. & D.
nos. 38496, 38512, 38513, 38514.    Sample nos. 11663-C, 17Ill-C.)
These cases involved canned salmon that was in part decomposed.
On or about November 4, November 6, and November 10, 1936, the United 
States attorneys for the Districts of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode 
Island, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in their re- 
spective district courts libels praying seizure and condemnation of 273 cases 
of canned salmon at Bridgeport, Conn., 1,000 cases at East Hartford, Conn., 
8,000 cases at Somerville, Mass., and 1,000 cases at Providence R. I., alleging 
that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce in part on or about 
September 18, 1936, and in part on or about September 21, 1936, by the 
Kelley-Clarke Co., from Seattle, Wash., and charging adulteration in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: (Can) "Queen 
of the Pacific Brand Red Alaska Salmon * * * Kelley-Clarke Co. Seattle 
Distributors."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a decomposed animal substance.
On December 4, December 11, 1936, and January 7, 1937, the Western Pacific 
Packing Co., Seattle, Wash., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the 
libels as to Adulteration of a part of the product, judgments of condemna- 
tion were entered and it was ordered that the product be released under bond, 
conditioned that the cans containing decomposed salmon be separated therefrom 
and destroyed.
M. L. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.