9999. Adulteration   and misbranding of  table   oil.     U.   S.     *     *     *     ?.   87
Cans of * * * Table Oil * * *. Default decree of condem- 
nation, forfeiture, and sale. (F. & D. No. 15295. I. S. No. 8497-t. S. No. 
E-3525.)
On August 2, 1921, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland^ 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District 
Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and con- 
demnation of 37 cans of table oil, consigned on or about July 2, 1921, remaining 
in the original unbroken packages at Baltimore, Md., alleging that the article 
had been shipped by Gamanos & Booskos, New York, N. Y., and transported 
from the State of New York into the State of Maryland, and charging adultera- 
tion and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that cotton- 
seed and other oils had been mixed and packed with, and substituted wholly or 
in part for, the said article, and for the further reason that it was mixed in a 
manner whereby its inferiority was concealed.
Misbranding was alleged in substance for the reason that the following 
statement appeared on the label of the can containing the said article, to wit, 
" Finest Quality Table Oil * * * Termini Imerese * * * Net Contents 
One Gallon," together with the design or device showing natives gathering 
olives from an olive tree. Misbranding was alleged for the further reason that 
the article purported to be a foreign product when not so; for the further 
reason that it was an imitation of, and was offered for sale under the dis- 
tinctive name of, another article; 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 outside of the package.
On October 1, 1921, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be relabeled and sold by the United States marshal.
C. W. PUGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.