NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 971, FOOD AND DRUGS ACT.
MISBRANDING OF OLIVES.
On or about September 17, 1910, Vincenzo Arezzo, Raef ale Arezzo, 
and Claudio Arezzo, doing business under the firm name and style of 
Vincenzo Arezzo & Co., shipped from the State of New York into 
the State of Pennsylvania a consignment of olives labeled as follows: 
" New York Z— Cacciola Bros., 913 Christian St., Philadelphia, Pa., 
B. & W." Samples from this shipment were procured and examined 
microscopically by the Bureau of Chemistry, United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, and a large percentage of the olives were found 
to be Avormy and decayed and to contain a considerable number of 
worms. As it appeared from the above examination and report 
thereon that the product was adulterated within the meaning of the 
Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, the Secretary of Agriculture 
afforded the said Vincenzo Arezzo & Co. and the party from whom 
the samples were procured opportunities for hearings. As it ap- 
peared after hearings held that the shipment was made in violation 
of the act
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the Secretary of Agriculture reported the facts to the 
Attorney-General, with a statement of the evidence upon which to 
base a prosecution.
In due course a criminal information was filed in the Circuit Court 
of the United States for the Southern District of New York against 
the said Vincenzo Arezzo, Raefale Arezzo, and Claudio Arezzo, 
charging the above shipment, and alleging that the product so 
shipped was adulterated in that it consisted in part of a filthy, de- 
composed, and putrid animal or vegetable substance.
On April 3, 1910, the defendants entered a plea of guilty to the 
above information, whereupon the court imposed a joint fine of $50.
This notice is given pursuant to section 4 of the Food and Drugs 
Act of June 30, 1906.
JAMES WILSON, 
Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 19, 1911.
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