20543. Adulteration and misbranding and the sale and offering for sale of colored
oleomargarine. U. S. v. Morris Abramson (Murray Abramson and 
George Murray). Plea of guilty. Fine, $500. Sentence of 1 year in 
jail suspended and defendant placed on probation for 1 year.   (F. D. C.
No. 33772.    Sample Nos. 24221-L, 36848-L, 37279-L.)
INDICTMENT RETURNED : March 24, 1953, District of New Jersey, against Morris 
Abramson, also known as Murray Abramson and George Murray, Newark, N. J.
ALLEGED VIOLATION: On or about May 1, 1952,-the-defendant received in inter- 
state commerce, at Secaucus, N. J., a number of cartons of colored oleomar- 
garine, or colored margarine, which was represented to be butter and which 
was adulterated; and on or about May 1, 1952, the defendant did, with intent 
to defraud and mislead, deliver for pay a number of such cartons containing 
the adulterated colored oleomargarine, or colored margarine, to a purchaser 
in Jersey City, N. J.
On or about April 3,1952, the defendant did, within the State of New Jersey, 
with intent to defraud and mislead, sell and offer for sale, a number of cartons 
of colored oleomargarine, or colored margarine, which was in violation of the 
law, as indicated below.
NATURE OF CHARGE: Adulteration, Section 402 (b) (2), colored oleomargarine, 
or colored margarine, had been substituted for butter in the case of the article 
involved in the May 1 transaction.
The colored oleomargarine, or colored" margarine, involved in the sale of 
April 3 was in violation of Section 407 (b) (3) (A), in that the word "oleo- 
margarine" or "margarine" did not appear on the labels of the cartons con-
taining the colored" oleomargarine, Or colored margarine, in type or lettering 
at least as large as any other type or lettering on such labels since the labels 
did not bear the word "oleomargarine" or "margarine"; and, Section 407 (b) 
(3) (B), in that a full and accurate statement of all of the ingredients con- 
tained in the colored oleomargarine, or colored margarine, did not appear on 
the labels of the cartons containing the colored oleomargarine, or colored 
margarine, since such labels bore no statement of the ingredients contained in 
the colored oleomargarine, or colored margarine. 
DISPOSITION: May 15, 1953. The defendant having entered a plea of guilty, 
the court fined him $500 and sentenced him to 1 year in jail. The jail sen- 
tence was suspended, and the defendant was placed on probation for 1 year.