7248. Adulteration and Misbranding of olive oil. U. S. * * * v. Mario Campolieti and 
Robert Emilio (Emilio & Campolieti). Pleas of guilty. Fine, S5. (F. & D. No. 10046. 
I. S. No. 13707-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 Mario Campolieti and 
Robert Emilio, copartners, .trading a,s Emilio & Campolieti, New York, N. Y., alleg- 
ing shipment by said defendants, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as 
amended, on February 14, 1918, from the State of New York into the State of Con- 
necticut, of a quantity of an article, labeled in part "Finest Quality Olive Oil Extra 
Pure Termini Imerese Sicilia-Italia," which was adulterated and misbranded.
Analysis of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this department 
showed it to consist principally of cottonseed oil and to be short volume.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that a sub- 
stance, 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 pure olive oil, which the article purported to be.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the statements, to wit, 
"Finest Quality Olive Oil Extra Pure," "Guaranteed Absolutely Pure," and "Ter- 
mini Imerese Sicilia-Italia J Gallon Net," or "J Gallon Net," borne on the cans con- 
taining 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 Sicily, in the kingdom 
of Italy, and that each of said cans contained ? gallon or \ 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 Sicily, in the kingdom of Italy, and that each of said 
cans contained ? gallon or \ 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 product, to wit, an olive oil produced in Sicily, in the kingdom of Italy, 
but was a domestic product, to wit, a product produced in the United States of Amer- 
ica, and each of said cans did not contain ? gallon or \ gallon net of the article, but 
contained a less amount; 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 manu- 
factured in whole or in part in the United States of America and was branded as 
manufactured and produced in the kingdom of Italy; for the further reason that it 
was a mixture composed in part of cottonseed oil, prepared in imitation of olive oil, 
and was sold under the distinctive name of another article, to wit, olive oil; for the 
fui'ther reason that by the statements on the label aforesaid, it purported to be a foreign 
product when not so; and 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 out- 
side of the package.
On July 30, 1919, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the information, and 
the court imposed a fine of $5.    '
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.