7140. Adulteration and Misbranding of olive oil. XJ. S. * * * v. Guiseppe 
Crisafulli and Stefano Crisafulli (Crisafulli Bros.). Plea of guilty. 
Fine, $25.     (F. & D. No. 9794.    I.  S. No. 14720-r.)
On July 21, 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 
Guiseppe Crisafulli and Stefano Crisafulli, copartners, trading as Crisafulli 
Bros., New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on August 24, 1918, from the State of 
New York into the State of Pennsylvania, of a quantity of an article, labeled 
in part " La Migliore Brand Extra Fine Olive Oil," 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 positive, and the 
test for corn oil with nitric acid gave a reddish brown coloration.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that substances, to wit, cottonseed oil and corn oil, had been mixed and packed 
therewith so as to lower, reduce, and injuriously affect its quality and 
strength, and had been substituted in large part for olive oil, which the article 
puported to be.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the statements, 
to wit, " Finest Quality Table Oil, Extra Fine Olive Oil, Net Contents One- 
quarter Gallon," together with the design and device of olive branches bearing 
olives,- not corrected by the statement in inconspicuous type, "Corn salad oil 
compound with * * *," borne on the cans containing the article, regarding 
it and the ingredients and substances contained therein, were false and mis- 
leading in that they represented that the article was olive oil, and that each of
suid cans- contained' |: gallon- net of the artiGle,; and for the further reasons tfeat 
iC was- labeled as- aforesaid- so a* to.< deceive- aact raisleael the; purchaser in** 
the' belief that it was olive oi*l,. and' that ea^h of: said cans contained, i gallon- 
ttet of the" article',' whereas- in truth- and; ku fact, it was not olive oil, but was 
a mixture composed in large part of cottonseed oil and corn oil,, and- each &- 
said cans- did not contain I gallon net of the article, but contained a less 
amount. 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 outsid'e of the package.
?n July 23, 1919", the defendants- entered pfeas- of gni-lty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $25.
B. D. BALL, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.