CS50. Adu Iteration and misbranding- ot olive oil. V. 8. * * * v. John S.?
Ferities. Plea of guilty. Fine, $00. (P. & D. No. 9201. J. S. No.?
1374-p.)
On December 13, 1918, the United States attorney for the Southern District?
of'New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States fof said district an information against?
John S. Peridcs, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said defendant, on?
March 13, 1918, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, from?
the State of New York into the State of Massachusetts, of a quantity of an?
article, labeled in part "White Horse Brand Olive Oil * * * Lucca Italy?
* * * importer and Packer J. S. Peridcs 1 Gallon Net," which was adulter??
ated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed the product to consist almost wholly of cottonseed oil and?
to be short volume.
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 article purported to be.
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Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the statements?
borne on the cans containing the article, regarding it and the ingredients and?
substances contained therein, were false and misleading in that they repre??
sented that the article was pure olive oil, and that said article was a foreign?
product, to wit, an olhe oil produced at Lucca, in the kingdom of Italy, and?
that the can contained one gallon net of the article, whereas, in truth and in?
fact, it was not pure- olive oil, was not a foreign product, to wit, an olive oil?
produced at Lucca, in the kingdom of Italy, and said can did not contain?
one gallon net of the article, but was a mixture' composed in part of cottonseed?
oil and was a domestic product, to wil, a product manufactured in the United?
States of America, and said can contained less than one gallon net of the?
article. Misbranding of the article was alleged for -the further reason that it?
was food in package form, and the quantity of the contents was not plainly?
and conspicuously stated on the outside of the package.
On December 31, 1918, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the informa??
tion, and the court imposed a fine of $90.
G. F. MABVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.