?533.  Adulteration and misbranding: of olive oil.    TJ. S.   *    *    *   v. 17 Cases?
*    *    *   Olive Oil.     Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and
sale.     (F. & D. No. 8876.    I. S. No. 2682r-p.    S. No. SV-999.)
On March 21, 1918, the United States attorney for the District of Massa??
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district a libel of information?
praying the seizure and condemnation of 17 cases of a product purporting to?
be olive oil, consigned on or about August 15, 1917, remaining unsold in the?
original, unbroken packages at Boston, Mass., alleging that the article had been?
shipped by B. Scola, Brooklyn, N. Y., and transported from the State of New?
York into the State of Massachusetts, and charging adulteration and misbrand??
ing in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. The article was labeled in part,?
" Olio Puro D'Oliva Lucca Italy."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel of information for the?
reason that it consisted wholly or in part of cottonseed oil and corn oil, which?
had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and lower and injuriously?
affect its quality and strength.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the packages and?
labels thereof bore a certain statement which was false and misleading, that?
Is to say, the words " Olive Oil." in that said product was not olive oil; and?
for the further reason that it was an imitation of, and was offered for sale?
under the distinctive name of, another article, to wit, olive oil, whereas, in?
truth and in fact, it was not olive oil. Misbranding of the article was alleged?
for the further reason that by manner of display it led the purchaser to believe?
that it was a foreign product, when, in truth and in fact, it was a product of?
domestic manufacture. Misbranding of the article was alleged for the further?
reason that it was food in package form, and the quantity of the contents was?
not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the packages in terms?
of weight, measure, and numerical count.
On April 22, 1918, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment?
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the product should be sold at public auction by the United States marshal?
in a package or packages properly branded, denoting that the contents con??
sisted of cottonseed oil and corn oil instead of olive oil.
C, F, MAKVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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