7133. Adulteration and Misbranding of olive oil. IT. S. * * * v. Mario 
Campolieti. Plea of siiHty. Fine, $25. (P. & D. No. 0744. I. S. No. 
11351-r.)
On April 29, 1919, the United States attorney for the' Southern District 
of New Yrork, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
Mario Campolieti, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said defendant, in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on July 16, 1918, from the 
State of New York into the State of Ohio, of a quantity of an article, labeled 
in part, " Finest Quality Olive Oil Extra Pure," which was adulterated and 
misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau' of Chemistry of this 
department showed the Halphen test for cottonseed oil to be strongly positive 
and the net volume to be 1 pint 10.88 fluid ounces.
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 large part for olive oil, which the article pur- 
ported to be.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the statements, to 
wit, " Finest Quality Olive Oil, Extra Pure, Guaranteed Absolutely Pure, 
Tipo Termini Imerese Italy, Sicilia-Italia, i Gallon Net," borne on the 
cans containing the article, regarding it and the ingredients and substances 
contained therein^ were false and misleading in that they represented that
the article was pure olive oil, that it was a toreign product, to wit, an 
olive oil produced in Sicily, in the kingdom of Italy, and that each of said 
cans contained i gallon net 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 it was pure olive oil, that it was a foreign product, to wit, 
an olive oil produced in Sicily, in the kingdom of Italy, and that each of said 
cans contained i gallon net of the article, whereas, in truth and in fact, it 
was not pure olive oil, but was a mixture composed in part of cottonseed 
oil, and was not a foreign product, to wit, an olive oil produced in Sicily, in 
the kingdom of Italy, but was a domestic product, to wit, a product produced 
in the United States of America, and each of said cans did not contain J 
gallon net of the article, but did contain a less amount; and for the further 
reason that it was falsely branded as to the country in which it was mami- 
factured and produced, in that it was a product manufactured and produced 
in whole or in part in the United States of America, and was branded as 
manufactured and produced in the kingdom of Italy; and for the further 
reason that it was a mixture composed in large part of' cottonseed oil prepared 
in imitation of olive oil, and was sold'under the distinctive name of another 
article, to'wit, olive oil; and for the further reason that the statements on. 
the can purported that the article was a foreign product, when not so. Mis- 
branding of the article was alleged for the further reason that it was food iu 
package form, and the quantity of the contents was not plainly and con- 
spicuously marked on the outside of the package.
On May 7, 1919, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $25.
E. D. BALL, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.