NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 1155.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF OLIVE OIL.
At a stated term of the Circuit Court of the United States for the 
Southern District of New York, on the first Monday of May, 1910, 
the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 
in the Second Circuit, acting upon the report of the Secretary of 
Agriculture, filed information in the District Court of the United 
States for said district against Francesco Corrao, doing business 
under the firm name of Francesco Corrao & Co., alleging shipment 
by him, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on or about January 
17, 1910, from the State of New York into the State of Massachu- 
setts of a quantity of olive oil which was adulterated and misbranded. 
Said product was labeled: " Universal Brand Olio use famiglie, 
Pure Italian Olive Oil, compounded with salad oil, packed by Fran- 
cesco Corrao, N. Y."
Analyses by the Bureau of Chemistry, United States Department 
of Agriculture, of samples of this product, showed the following 
results: Specific gravity at 15.6° C./15.60 C, 0.9214; index of refrac- 
tion at 25° C, 1.4705; iodin number (Hanus), 107.5; Halphen test, 
positive; peanut oil test, negative; sesame oil test, negative; color 
appears to be a methyl amino azo benzene. Adulteration was al- 
leged because the article consisted mainly of cottonseed oil artificially 
colored with coal-tar dye so as to conceal its inferiority. Misbrand- 
ing was alleged for the reason that the product was represented as 
a pure Italian olive oil, which statement was false and misleading 
and calculated to deceive and mislead the purchaser, because, in fact, 
the product was not a pure olive oil, but consisted mainly of cotton- 
seed oil.
On June 24, 1910, the defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced
to pay a fine of $25.
W. M. HAYS,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
WASHINGTON, D. C, October 4,1911.
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