29099. Adulteration of canned tuna.    U. S. v. 862 Cases of Tuna.    Consent decree
of condemnation.     Produet released  under bond  for segregation  and 
destruction of unfit portion.    (F. & D. No. 39420.    Sample No. 26975-C.)
This product was in part decomposed.
On or about May 6, 1937, the United States attorney for the District of 
Connecticut, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 862 cases of canned 
tuna at Bridgeport, Conn.; alleging that the article had been shipped in inter- 
state commerce on or about March 24, 1937, by Point Loma Tuna Packers, Inc., 
from Point Loma, Calif.; and charging adulteration in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part: "Sunrise Tuna Fish * * * 
Distributors [or "Distributed only by"] Miner, Read & Tullock Inc. New Haven, 
Conn."
The article was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in whole or in 
part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal substance.
On October 20, 1937, Point Loma Tuna Packers, Inc., claimant, having ad- 
mitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered, and 
the product was ordered released under bond conditioned that all cans, with 
the exception of those identified by one code number, be released as fit for 
consumption, and that all cans under the code not so released might be shipped 
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to the packer for separation of the good from the bad and destruction of the 
latter—such shipment and separation to be under the supervision of this 
Department.
HARRY L. BROWN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.