10244.?Adulteration and misbranding; of alleged olive  oil.    TJ.  S.     *     *     *
v. 10 Gallons of a Product Purporting: to be Olive Oil. Default?
decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and sale. (F. & D. No. 1537(3.?
I. S. No. 5091-t.    S. No. E-3517.)
On or about August 2, 1921, the United States attorney for the District of?
Massachusetts, 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?
condemnation of 10 gallons of a product purporting to be olive oil, remaining?
in the original unbroken packages at Fall River, Mass.. consigned on or about?
June 4, 1921, alleging that the article had been shipped by the Armenian Im??
porting Co., New York, N. Y., and transported from the State of New York into?
the State of Massachusetts, and charging adulteration and misbranding in viola??
tion of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it con??
sisted in whole or in part of cottonseed oil, which had been mixed and packed?
with the said article so as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality?
and strength.
Misbranding was alleged for the reason that the article was an imitation?
of, and was offered for sale under the distinctive name of, another article, to wit,?
olive oil, whereas, in truth and in fact, it was not olive oil.
On November 14, 1921, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg??
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the?
court that the product be sold by the United States marshal in a package prop??
erly branded to show the said product to be cottonseed oil.
C. W. PUGSUEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.