28131. Alleged Adulteration of canned salmon.    U. S. v. Columbia River Packers
Association, Inc.     Tried to the court.     Judgment of not guilty.     (F. &
D. No. 39474.    Sample Nos. 11293-C, 11294-C, 21832-C, 21833-C.)
On May 17, 1937, the United States attorney for the District of Oregon, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district 
court an information against Columbia River Packers Association, Inc., Astoria, 
Oreg., alleging shipment by the defendant on or about August 18, 1936, from 
the Territory of Alaska into the State of Oregon of quantities of canned 
salmon that was alleged to be adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs 
Act.   The product bore no label.
It was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in part of 
a decomposed animal substance.
On December 15, 1937, the case came on for trial to the court without a 
jury.    On December 20, 1937, the defendant was adjudged not guilty.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.