Royal Oil Corporation

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IN THE MATTER OF ROYAL OIL CORPORA TION ET AL.

MODIFIED ORDER, ETC. , IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT Docket 6702. Complaint, Jan. 1957-Decision, Sept. , 1966 Order reopening and modifying an earlier order, 54 F. C. 1292, dated April , 19,18 requiring a marketer of lubricating oil to cease advertising its product without disclosing that the oil is re-rcn.ned or reprocessed, by ordering that such disclosure be made on the front panel or panels of the containers.

ORDER REOPENING PROCEEDING AND MODIFYING ORDER TO CEASE AND DESIST The Commission on April 7, 1958 (54 F. C. 1292), having issued its order to cease and desist against respondents herein providing in part as follows:

It is ordered That respondent Royal Oil Corporation, a corporation, and its offcers, and respondent Irving H. Weil as an offcer of said corporate respondent, and respondents Alden C. Jocelyn (erroneously referred to in the complaint as Alden C. Jocelin) and Joseph A. Inciardi, individually and as offcers of said corporate respondent, and respondents agents, representatives, and employees, directly or through any corporate or other device, in connection with the offering for sale, sale or distribution in commerce, as "commerce" is Order 70 F.

defined in the Federal Trade Commission Act, of lubricating oil, do forthwith cease and desist from: (1) Advertising, offering for sale or seUing, any lubricating oil which is composed in whole or in part of oil which has been reclaimed or in any manner processed from previously used. oil, without disclosing such prior use to the purchaser or potential purchaser in advertising and in sales promotion material, and by a clear and conspicuous statement to that effect on the container; (2) Representing in any manner that lubricating oil composed in whole or in part of oil that has been manufactured, reprocessed or re-refined from oil that has been previously used for lubricating purposes, has been manufactured from oil that has not been previously used.

And the Commission having on August 9, 1966, served upon respondents its order to show cause wby this proceeding should not be reopened and Paragraph (1) of its order of April 7, 1958, be modified to require a statement of the oil' s prior use on the front panel or panels of the oil containers, and Respondents by their attorney in their answers dated August , 1966, and September 8, 1966, having stated that they have no obj ection to the rewording of the order as proposed in the Commission s order to show cause, and The Commission being of the opinion that the public interest will be best served by modifying its order of April 7, 1958 It is ordered That the proceeding herein be, and it hereby is reopened and the Commission s order of April 7, 19G8 (54 F. 1292), be, and it hereby is, modified by substituting the following paragraph for Paragrapb (1) contained in that order: (1) Advertising, offering for sale or selling, any lubricating oil which is composed in whole or in part of oil which has been reclaimed or in any manner processed from previously used oil, without disclosing such prior use to the purchaser or potential purchaser in the advertising and sales promotion material, and by a clear and conspicuous statement to that effect on the front panel or front panels of the container.

SHIP 'N SHORE, INC., ET AL. 631 Certification of Record