18891. Adulteration and misbranding of olive oil and table and cooking oil.
U. S. v. 58 Cans, etc.   (F. D. C, No. 32544.   Sample Nos. 14772kL, 14773-L, 
14776^-L, 14777-L.) 
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LIBEL FILED:   On or about February 27, 1952, Western District of Missouri. 
ALLEGED SHIPMENT:   Oh or about November 13,1951, by the Chicago Macaroni 
Co., from Chicago, Ill.
PRODUCT: 58 1-gallon cans of olive oil and 40 1-gallon cans of table and 
cooking oil at Kansas City, Mo.
LABEL IN PART: "Extra Cyrilla 1-Gallon Virgin Imported Pure Olive Oil" 
or "One Gallon Italy Brand Table Oil Blend An Excellent composition 
of eighty per cent of corn oil and twenty per cent of imported olive oil."
NATURE OF CHARGE: Table and cooking oil. Adulteration, Section 402 (b) (1), 
a valuable constituent, olive oil, had been in whole or in part omitted; and, 
Section 402 (b) (2), a mixture of corn oil and cottonseed oil with little or no 
olive oil had been substituted in whole or in part for a blend of SO percent corn 
oiiiand 20 percent olive oil. Misbranding, Section 403 (a), the label designa- 
tion "twenty per cent of imported olive oil" was false and misleading since the 
product contained little or no olive oil. 
Olive oil and table and cooking oil. Misbranding, Section 403 (e) (2), the 
products failed to bear labels containing accurate statements of the quantity 
of the contents.    (The cans were short of the declared volume.)   ¦ ¦¦ ,-,
DISPOSITION: April 2, 1952. A default decree was entered, and the court or- 
dered that the products be delivered to an institution for the aged.