NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1047.
(Glyen pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION OF BLACK OLIVES.
On February 8, 1911, the United States Attorney for the Western 
District of Pennsylvania, acting upon the report of the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said 
district a libel praying condemnation and forfeiture of five barrels 
of black olives in the possession of the Pennsylvania Macaroni Co.
Examination of a sample from said consignment, made by the 
Bureau of Chemistry, United States Department of Agriculture, 
showed that 15.4 per cent of the olives were passable, 3.5 per cent 
were wormy, 42.8 per cent worm-eaten, and 38 per cent decayed. 
The libel alleged that the black olives, after shipment by Arco G. 
Psiaki Co., of New York, from the State of New York into the State 
of Pennsylvania, remained in the original unbroken packages and 
were adulterated in violation of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 
1906, because they consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decom- 
posed, or putrid vegetable or animal substance, and were, therefore, 
liable to seizure for confiscation.
On March 13, 1911, it appearing from the return of the marshal 
that he had seized three barrels of said olives and no person having 
intervened a' claim thereto, the court, on motion of the United States 
Attorney, entered a decree condemning said three barrels of black 
olives and ordering their destruction by the marshal.
JAMES WILSON, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 5, 1911.
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