9922. Adulteration and misbranding of olive  oil.     U.  S.     *     *     *     v.  Mal- 
lory  &  Rousos.     Pleas  of  nolo  contendere.     Fine,  $25.     (F.  & D.
No. 9229.    I. S. No. 6567-p.)
On October 28, 1919, the United States attorney for the Western 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 
Spiro Rousos and Harry Maggioros, copartners, trading as Maggioros & 
Rousos, Rochester, N. Y., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act, on or about May 13, 1918, from the State of New 
York into the State of Pennsylvania, of a quantity of olive oil which was 
adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis. of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this 
department showed that the product was essentially 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 said article purported to be.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that ,the statement in prominent 
type in the Italian language, to wit, " Olive Oil," and the, statement in smaller 
type in the English language, to wit, " With First Quality Pure Salad Oil, " 
borne on the cans containing the said article, regarding the article and the 
ingredients and substances contained therein, were false and misleading in 
that they represented that the said article was olive oil, and for the further 
reason that the article was labeled as aforesaid so as to deceive and mis- 
lead the purchaser into the belief that it was olive oil, whereas, in truth and 
in fact, it was not olive oil but was a product composed in part of cottonseed 
oil. Misbranding was alleged for the further reason that the said article was 
a product composed in part of cottonseed oil and was an imitation of, and was 
offered for sale and sold under the distinctive name of,, another article, to wit, 
olive oil.
On September 20, 1921, the defendants entered pleas of nolo contendere to 
the information, and the court imposed a fine of $25.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.