7123.  Adulteration   anil   misln-antlins   of   olive   oil.     U.   S.    *    *    *    v.   Mario
Campolieti.     Plea   of   grailty.     Fine,   $5.      (F.   &   D.   No.   9745.     I.   S.   No. 
11352-r.)
On July 18, 1919, 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 for said district an information against 
Mario Campolieti, New York, N. Y., alleging' shipment by .said defendant, in vio- 
lation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on May 24, 1918, from the 
State of New York into the State of Ohio, of a quantity of an article, labeled 
in part " Olio Puro D'Oliva," which was adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed the Halphen test for cottonseed oil to be strongly positive and 
the net volume of the cans to be 3 quarts, 1 pint, 5 fluid ounces.
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 large part for olive oil, which the article purported 
to be.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the statements, 
to wit, " Olio Puro D'Oliva, Lucca Tipo Italy, Olio Puro D'Oliva, Garantito 
Produzione Propria, Net Contents Full Gallon," borne on the cans containing 
the article, regarding it and the ingredients and substances contained therein, 
were false and misleading in that they represented that the article was pure 
olive oil, that it was a foreign product, to wit, an olive oil produced in Lucca, 
in the kingdom of Italy, and that each of said cans contained 1 full gallon 
net of the article, and for the further reason that it was labeled as aforesaid
so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it was pure 
olive oil, that it was a foreign product, to wit, an olive, oil produced in Lucca, 
in the kingdom of Italy, and that each of said cans contained 1 full gallon 
net of the article, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not pure olive oil, but 
was a mixture composed in part of cottonseed oil, and was not a foreign prod- 
uct, to wit, an olive oil produced in Lucca, in the kingdom of Italy, but was 
a domestic product, to wit, a product produced in the United States of America, 
and that each of said cans did not contain 1 full gallon net of the article, but 
contained a less amount; and for the further reason that it was falsely branded 
as to the country in which it was manufactured and produced, in that it was 
a product manufactured or produced in whole or in part in the United States 
of America and was branded as manufactured and produced in the kingdom 
of Italy; and for the further reason that it was a mixture composed in large 
part of cottonseed oil prepared in imitation of olive oil, and was sold under 
the distinctive name of another article, to wit, olive oil, and for the further 
reason that the statements borne on the cans purported that the article was a 
foreign product, when not so. 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 marked on the outside of the 
package.
On July 30, 1919, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $5.
E. D. BALL, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.