NOTICE  OF JUDGMENT  NO. 2102.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF SO-CALLEGED OLIVE OIL.
On June 11, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District of 
Rhode Island, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel 
for the seizure and condemnation of two cases of so-called olive oil, 
remaining unsold and in the original unbroken packages at Provi- 
dence, R. I., alleging that the product had been shipped on or about 
March 28, 1912, from the State of New York into the State of Rhode 
Island, and charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act. The product was labeled: "Tripoli Brand 
Olio Puro Italiano Di Oliva."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that it was labeled "Tripoli Brand Olio Puro Italiano Di Oliva," and 
purported by said label to be pure olive oil, but a certain substance, 
to wit, cottonseed oil, had been substituted in part in said oil for 
pure olive oil. Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the prod- 
uct bore a label and designation as set forth above, to wit, that said 
product purported to be pure olive oil, but in truth and in fact it was 
not pure olive oil, but was composed in the proportion, approxi- 
mately, of 50 per cent cottonseed oil, and 50 per cent olive oil or other 
oils. Misbranding was alleged for the further reason that the prod- 
uct was labeled and branded so as to deceive and mislead a purchaser 
in that the product bore the statement that it was pure olive oil, 
which statement was false and misleading in the particulars afore- 
said.
Thereafter, during the month of August, 1912, no claimant having 
appeared for the property, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture 
was entered, the court finding the product misbranded. It was fur- 
ther ordered that the product should be relabeled and sold by the 
United States marshal, or if it could not be sold, that it be destroyed 
by said marshal.
W. M. HAYS, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, December 12, 1912.
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