2873.?Adulteration and misbranding of olive oil.   V. S. v. One Case of Oil.   Default decree of
condemnation and forfeiture.   Product ordered sold.   (F. & D. No. 4194.   S. No. 1434.)
On June 21, 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 one?
case of oil remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and in the possession?
of Joseph Luongo, Providence, R. I., alleging that the product had been shipped?
on or about March 29, 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 Trade Mark Olio Puro Itali-?
ano Di Olivi."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason that it was labeled?
as set forth above and purported by said label to be pure olive oil, but that 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 packages containing the?
oil bore a label, statement, design, and device reading as above set forth, which?
label, statement, design, and device was false and misleading, to wit, that said oil?
purported by said label, statement, design, and device to be pure olive oil, when, in?
truth and in fact, said oil was not pure olive oil, but was composed in substantial?
part of cottonseed oil and oils other than olive oil. Misbranding was alleged for the?
further reason that the packages containing the oil bore a label reading as aforesaid,?
to wit, that said oil purported by its label to be pure olive oil, but was in fact com??
posed in large part of cottonseed oil and oils other than olive oil, and was in manner?
and form as aforesaid so labeled and branded as to mislead the purchaser.
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BTJEEAtr OP  CHEMISTKY.	
[February,
During the month of September, 1913, the case having come on for final disposition?
and no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment of condemnation and?
forfeiture was entered and it was ordered by the court that the product should be?
sold by the United States marshal.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, February 18, 1914-