7295.  Adulteration   timH   irtiKVra.ndiiig'   of   olive   oil.   IT.   S.    *    *    *    v.   Cliris-
tapttei'   BuoHOCerc   and  Medeo   Btto?ocore   (C.   BnoBoeore   &   Sons). 
Plea, of  guilty.    Fine, $50.    (F.   & D.   No..   10287.    I.   S.  No.  13730-r.)
On July 17, 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 
Christopher Buonocore and Medeo Buonocore, trading as C. Buonocore & Sons, 
New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the Food 
and Drugs Act, as amended, on November 20, 1918, from the State of New York 
into the State of Connecticut, 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 it to consist almost entirely of cottonseed oil and to be short 
volume.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the informatics for the reason that 
a substance, cottonseed oil, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
lower, reduce, and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been 
substituted in 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 Italy," " Olio Puro D'Oliva Garantito Pro- 
duzione Propria," and " 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 olive 
oil, and 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 olive oil, and that 
it was a foreign product, to wit, an olive oil produced in Lucca, in the kingdom 
of Italy, and that the said cans contained 1 full gallon net of the article, whereas, 
in truth and in fact, it was not 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 Lucca, in the kingdom of Italy, but was a domestic product produced in the 
United States of America, and 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 a mixture composed in large part of cottonseed oil prepared in imitation 
of oilve oil, and wras offered for sale and sold under the distinctive name of an- 
other article, to wit, olive oil; and for th,e further reason that it was falsely 
branded as to the country in which it was manufactured and produced in that 
it was branded as manufactured and produced in Lucca, in the kingdom of 
Italy, whereas it was manufactured and produced in the United States of 
America; and for the further reason that the statements borne on the label 
purported the article to be 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 23, 1919, the defendants entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $50.
C. F. MAKVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.