7602. Adulteration of olive oil, TJ. S. * * * -v. Lawrence Mercurio (Mer- 
curio & Co.). Plea of guilty to count 1 of the information. Fine, 
Jj525    and    costs.       Remaining    counts    of    information    dismissed.
(F. & D. No. 9661.    I. S. No. 10009-p.)
On May 16, 1919, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Mis- 
souri, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district an information against Lawrence 
Mercurio, trading as Mercurib & Co., St. Louis, Mo., alleging shipment by said 
defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about March 23, 1918, 
from the State of Missouri into the State of Illinois, of a quantity of an article, 
labeled in part " Extra-Superfine Lucca Olive Oil (Italy) Warranted Pure," 
which was adulterated.
Analysis of a sample of the article made in the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that it consisted 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 pure olive oil, which the article purported to be.
On November 13, 1919, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the first 
count of the information, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs. The 
remaining counts of the information were dismissed.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.