7298. Adulteration and Misbranding of olive oil. IT. S. * * * v. John 
Zeppos, Niels Antonio, and' Anthony Antonio (Alpha Importing 
Co.).   Plea of guilty.   Fine, $15.    (F. & D. No. 10294.    I. S. No. 14867-r.)
On October 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 
John Zeppos, Nick Antonio, and Anthony Antonio, copartners, trading as the 
Alpha Importing Co., New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said defendants, in 
violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, on October 15, 1918, from the 
State of New York into the State of Pennsylvania, of a quantity of an article, 
labeled in part " Olive oil * * * Extra Quality," which was adulterated 
and misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed it to be a mixture of cottonseed and peanut oils containing 
little olive oil and to be short volume.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that certain substances, to wit, cottonseed oil and peanut oil, had been sub- 
stituted in whole or in part for olive oil, which the article purported to be.
Misbranding of the article was alleged for the reason that the statement, 
to wit, " Olive Oil," not corrected by the statement, in inconspicuous type, 
(i compounded with cottonseed oil," and the statement " i Gallon Net," b*me 
on the cans containing the article, regarding it and the ingredients and sub- 
stances contained therein, were false and misleading in that they represented 
that the article was olive oil, and that each of said cans contained I 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 the article was 
olive oil, and that each of said cans contained i gallon net of the article, 
whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not olive oil, but was a mixture com- 
posed in large part of cottonseed oil and peanut oil, and each of said cans did 
not contain J gallon net of the article, but contained a less amount; and for 
the further reason that it was a product composed in large part of cotton- 
seed oil and peanut oil prepared in imitation of olive oil, and was sold under 
tke distinctive name of another article, to wit, olive oil. 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 November 12, 1919, the defendants entered pleas of guilty to the in- 
formation, and the court imposed a fine of $15.
C. F. MAEVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.