67S0,  Adulteration and misbranding- of olive oil,    V, S.    *     *    *    v. Christo??
pher Bnonocore (C. Buonocore & Son).    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $10.
(F. & D. No. 9073.    I. S. No. 1304-p.)
On November 11, 1918, the United States attorney for the Southern Dis??
trict of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed?
in the District Court of the United States for said district an information?
against Christopher Buonocore, trading as C. Buonocore & Son, New York,?
N. Y., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act, on December 4, 1917, from the State of New York into the State?
of Connecticut, of a quantity of an article labeled in part, " Olio Puro D'Oliva?
Lucca Italy," which was adulterated and misbranded.
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Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed the following results :
Iodin number?
96. 6
Test for cottonseed oil: Strongly positive.?
Product consists almost wholly of cottonseed oil.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that a substance, to wit, cottonseed oil, had been mixed and packed therewith?
so as to lower and reduce and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and?
had been substituted in part for olive oil, which the article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the statement, to wit, " Olio?
Puro D'Oliva Lucca Italy Olio Puro D'Oliva Guantito Produzione Propria,"?
borne on the cans containing the article, regarding it and the ingredients and?
substances contained therein, was false and misleading in that it represented?
that the article was pure olhe oil and that it was a foreign product, and for?
the further reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mis??
lead the purchaser into the belief that it was a pure olive oil and was a?
foreign product, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not pme olhe oil and was?
not a foreign product, but was a mixture composed in part of cottonseed oil of?
domestic origin.
On November 27, 3918, the defendant entered a plea ot guilty to the in??
formation, and the court imposed a fine of $10.
J. R. RIGGS, Acting Sect etary of Agi [culture.