9340. Adulteration and Misbranding of olive oil.   II. S.   *•   *   *   v. 4 Cases   *   *   *   of Olive
Oil.   Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.   (F. & D. No. 9218. 
I. S. No. 7504-r.   S. No. C-949.)
On August 7, 1918, the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, 
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 4 cases, 
more or less, each containing 20 half-gallon cans, of olive oil, at Chicago, Ill., alleging 
that the article had been shipped by Nicholas Cosentino, Detroit, Mich., on March 
4
, 1918, and transported from the State of Michigan into the State of Illinois, and 
charging adulteration and misbranding in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that cottonseed 
oil had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously 
affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in part for the article.
Misbranding was alleged in substance for the reason that the cans containing the 
article were denominated as to the contents thereof, and labeled as follows, "Full 
Half Gallon Net Italy Pure Olive Oil Philip Berio e Co Lucca Tuscany," which 
statement was false and misleading in that it purported to set forth that the article 
consisted of pure olive oil, and for the further reason that the statement aforesaid 
deceived and misled the purchaser into the belief that the said article consisted of 
pure olive oil, whereas, in truth and in fact, it contained cottonseed oil.
On February 21, 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 destroyed by the United States marshal.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.