7552. Adulteration  and  misbraJiding of olive  oil.     U.  S.    *    *    *    v.  George
P.   Papadopnlas.     Plea   of   guilty.    Fine,   $100.     (F.   &   D.   No.   12308. 
I. S. No. 11912-r.)
On April 21, 1920, 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 
George P. Papadopulas, New York, N. Y., alleging shipment by said defendant,
on or about April 8, 1919, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, as amended, 
from the State of New York into the State of Ohio, of a quantity of olive oil 
which was adulterated and misbranded. The article was labeled as follows, 
"Finest Quality Table Oil Insuporabile (design) Termini Imerese Type Net 
Contents One Gallon Cottonseed oil slightly flavored with olive oil."
Analysis of a sample of the product by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it consisted chiefly of cottonseed oil, and that the cans 
vrere short volume.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
a substance, to wit, cottonseed oil, had been mixed and packed with the article 
so as to lower, reduce, and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had 
been substituted in part for olive oil which the article purported to be.
tMisbraading of the article was alleged in the information for the reason that 
Hie statements, to wit, " Finest Quality Table Oil," " Insuperabile," " Termini 
Imerese," and " Net Contents One Gallon," not corrected by the statement, in 
inconspicuous type and in an inconspicuous place, "Cottonseed oil slightly flavored 
v/ith olive oil," together with the design and device of an olive tree and natives 
gathering olives, borne on the cans containing the article, regarding it and the 
ingredients and substances contained therein, were false and misleading and 
labeled so as to deceive and mislead the purchaser in that they represented 
that said article was olive cil, and that each of said cans contained 1 gallon 
net of the article, whereas, in truth and in fact, said article was not olive oil, 
but was a mixture composed in large part of cottonseed oil, and each of said 
cans did not contain 1 gallon net of the article, but did contain a less amount. 
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 'con- 
spicuously marked on the outside of the package.
On April 21, 1920, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $100.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.