28119. Adulteration and misbranding of canned salmon.     IT.  S. v.  North Coast
Fisheries Co., Inc.     Plea of guilty.     Fine, $100 and costs.     (F. & D. No.
39473.    Sample Nos. 21478-C, 28455-C.)
This product was labeled pink salmon; whereas one lot consisted in part 
of chum salmon and the other was in part decomposed.
On June 14, 1937, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court an information against North Coast Fisheries Co., Inc., Seattle, 
Wash., alleging shipment by the defendant on or about September 12, 1936, 
and October 13, 1936, from the State of Washington into the States of Missouri 
and Pennsylvania, respectively, of quantities of canned salmon, of which one
lot was misbranded and the other was adulterated in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "North Bay Pink Salmon 
* * * Distributed by Wesco Foods Company General Offices, Cincinnati, 
Ohio."
One lot of the product was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in 
whole and in part of a decomposed animal substance.
The other lot was alleged to be misbranded in that the statement "Pink 
Salmon" was false and misleading and was borne on the labels so as to deceive 
and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it was pink salmon; whereas 
it was chum salmon.
On November 15, 1937, a plea of guilty was entered and the defendant was 
sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and costs.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.