6989. Misbranding- of olive oil. U. S. * * * v. Socrates MoscalUades and?
Styliaisios Moscahlades, copartners (Moscahlad.es Brothers). Fleas?
of guilty.    Fine, $20.     (F. & D. No. 9477.    I. S. No. 2665-p.)
On March 32, 1939, the United States attorney for the Southern District 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?
Socrates Moscahlades and Styliamos Moscahlades, copartners, trading as?
MoscaLlades Brothers, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said defendants,?
in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on or about November 12,?
1917, from the State of New York into the State of Massachusetts, of a quan??
tity of an article, labeled in part " Gloria Virgin Pure Olive Oil," which was?
misbranded.
Examination of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed the average net contents of 3 cans to be 1 pint 14.77 fluid?
ounces.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that the statement, to wit, " i Gall.," borne on the cans containing the?
article, regarding it, was false and misleading in that it represented that said?
cans contained not less than I gallon of the article, and for the further reason?
that it was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser?
into the belief that said cans contained not less than i gallon of the article,?
whereas, in fact and in truth, said cans did contain less than i gallon of the?
article. 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 package.
On March 26, 1919, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the informa??
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $20.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.