NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2538.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.)
U.  S. v. Louis  Scianamea.    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $100.
ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF OLIVE OIL.
On March 5, 1913, the United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture, filed in the District Court of the United States for said dis- 
trict an information against Louis Scianamea, New York, N. Y., 
alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act, on June 20, 1912, from the State of New York into the 
State of Connecticut, of a quantity of olive oil which was adulter- 
ated and misbranded. The product was labeled: "Huile D' Olive 
Marca Depositata Vincengo Jacobitti Lanciano-Bari " " Olive Oil 
V. J. Product of Italy Guaranteed absolutely pure Guaranteed one 
full quart."
An analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry 
of this Department showed the following results: Index of refruition 
at 25° C, 1.4681; iodin number (Hanus), 92.3; Halphen test for cot- 
tonseed oil, positive; average shortage, 7.9 per cent. Adulteration of 
the product was alleged in the information for the reason that there 
was substituted in part for the genuine article another article, to 
wit, cottonseed oil. Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the 
product was labeled as set forth above so as to deceive and mislead 
the purchaser thereof, in that said label would indicate that the 
product was olive oil produced in Italy, whereas, in truth and in 
fact, it was a mixture of olive oil and cottonseed oil; and was further 
misbranded in that it was in package form and the contents were 
not stated correctly in terms of measure on the outside of the pack-
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age, in that said package stated the product to be one full quart, 
whereas, in truth and in fact, it was 92 per cent of a full quart; and 
was further misbranded in that it purported to be a foreign product, 
to wit, a product of Italy, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was a 
product of the United States; and was further misbranded in that it 
was falsely branded as to the country in which it was manufactured 
or produced in being branded as a product of Italy, whereas, in truth 
and in fact, it was not produced or manufactured in Italy but was 
produced and manufactured in the United States.
On March IT, 1913, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the 
information and the court imposed a fine of $100.
B. T. GALLOWAY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 26,1913.
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