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FDA and US. Marshals seized Farm Bureau Coop Feeds

PORKER

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WASHINGTON — U.S. marshals, at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, seized livestock and horse feed on July 20 stored under what F.D.A. classified as "filthy conditions" at the Bi-County Farm Bureau Cooperative Association Inc., in Florence, Ky.

"The F.D.A. will not tolerate a company’s failure to adequately control and prevent filth in its facility," said Michael Chappell, F.D.A.’s acting associate commissioner for regulatory affairs. "The F.D.A. is prepared to use whatever legal means are necessary and appropriate to keep potentially contaminated products out of the marketplace."

F.D.A. investigators discovered live and dead mice and evidence of bird activity throughout the facility during a recent inspection of the Bi-County feed mill. F.D.A. laboratory analysis of samples collected during the inspection confirmed the presence of rodent urine, rodent feces, rodent hairs and rodent-gnawed holes in bags, in and around food products.

Marshals, acting on a warrant issued by the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Kentucky, seized all F.D.A.-regulated food products exposed to rodent and bird contamination at the facility. The seized products violate the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act because they were kept in conditions in which they may have become contaminated with filth.
 

PORKER

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Illinois Company to Pay $2 Million for Mislabeling Wisconsin Veal Save


Posted: 3:08 AM Aug 11, 2009
Last Updated: 3:08 AM Aug 11, 2009

An Illinois meatpacking company has agreed to pay $2 million to settle federal charges that it mislabeled its veal raised in Wisconsin and elsewhere.

Prosecutors at the federal court in Milwaukee say they reached the agreement Monday with Brown Packing Company Inc.

Prosecutors say the South Holland, Ill.-based corporation will plead guilty to felony conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.

They say three executives will also plead guilty to misdemeanors that carry a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.

Prosecutors say the company illegally administered hormones and steroids to veal calves from 1997 through 2004, then claimed the meat was "all-natural."

A woman who answered the phone at the company hung up when a reporter identified himself
 

Tex

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PORKER said:
Illinois Company to Pay $2 Million for Mislabeling Wisconsin Veal Save


Posted: 3:08 AM Aug 11, 2009
Last Updated: 3:08 AM Aug 11, 2009

An Illinois meatpacking company has agreed to pay $2 million to settle federal charges that it mislabeled its veal raised in Wisconsin and elsewhere.

Prosecutors at the federal court in Milwaukee say they reached the agreement Monday with Brown Packing Company Inc.

Prosecutors say the South Holland, Ill.-based corporation will plead guilty to felony conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.

They say three executives will also plead guilty to misdemeanors that carry a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.

Prosecutors say the company illegally administered hormones and steroids to veal calves from 1997 through 2004, then claimed the meat was "all-natural."

A woman who answered the phone at the company hung up when a reporter identified himself

So Porker, what has happened to Tyson since they had their labeling scam on chicken their competitors called them on?
 

PORKER

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Tyson Changed their Labels. A few more judgements like the veal will get the meat industry attention when more than 1 goes to jail plus the fines.
 

Tex

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PORKER said:
Tyson Changed their Labels. A few more judgements like the veal will get the meat industry attention when more than 1 goes to jail plus the fines.

All these corporate fraud cases need to go to the largest corporate stockholder and pierce the corporate veil. Send a Tyson or another big packer owner to jail, not just their underlings working for them. Same with Wall Street crooks.

That is when real action will happen and I doubt little else will. They have too much money to insulate them and too many people they can pay to take the fall for their greedy illegal ways.

Tex
 

PORKER

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FDA’s Commissioner Hamburg: Beefing up US food safety
10-Aug-2009
Related topics: Food safety, Legislation, Food safety and labeling

It looks like the FDA has finally got some muscle. Never mind new legislation – if anything can prevent America acquiring a weedy reputation for food safety, it’s the might of Dr Margaret Hamburg.

Just eight weeks into the job, she addressed an audience of food and drug lawyers last week, detailing tough new measures to stem the flow of tainted products from a tiny minority of neglectful manufacturers into consumers’ homes.

In answer to reporters’ questions, she said that it could be her “naïveté” that gets the ball rolling on reform. But don’t be fooled: Hamburg is a formidable woman, and while she may admit that there is “a lot more” to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) than she had expected, she certainly knows how to get things done. Remember, this is the woman credited with staunching the spread of tuberculosis as New York City’s health commissioner.

Now as she turns her hand to the startling state of the nation’s food safety system, let’s hope she can have a similar impact.

Among the new measures, she has promised to tighten the timeframe that companies have to clean up their facilities if food safety violations are found, and for the FDA to move “swiftly and aggressively” if inspections reveal significant public health hazards.

An aggressive response is certainly needed: The incidence of foodborne illness has more than tripled since the early nineties, and it now kills more than 5,000 Americans every year.

Besides, while the (HR2749 )Food Safety Enhancement Act is stuck between the House – where it passed last week – and the Senate, which won’t meet again until September, Hamburg says that the new measures can be enacted under current legislation now.

There will most likely be those in the US who are resistant to more robust federal action. After all, this is a country that has huge faith in individual responsibility and an industry that has long enjoyed relative freedom to look after its own interests. Who would risk their company’s reputation by selling contaminated products?

However it seems that industry has begun to realize that sometimes the ideal of blanket individual responsibility does fail. It only takes one Peanut Corporation of America to prompt the largest product recall in history, sicken hundreds, and bring an industry to its knees.

The irony of the FDA shake-up is that it is a response prompted by a rash of outbreaks that culminated in the peanut-salmonella scandal – but it may finally signal a move away from a food safety system that has too often been reactive to one that has the weight to focus on outbreak prevention.

Tougher action against those that violate FDA regulations is reason for some to beware.Prosecutors say the South Holland, Ill.-based corporation will plead guilty to felony conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.

They say three executives will also plead guilty to misdemeanors that carry a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.

Prosecutors say the company illegally administered hormones and steroids to veal calves from 1997 through 2004, then claimed the meat was "all-natural."



But for the vast majority of companies, Hamburg’s vow to subject errant parts of the industry to swifter action should be welcomed as a way to restore failing consumer confidence in the food supply. As long as the agency upholds its part of the deal, to be transparent in its expectations, industry has nothing to fear and much to gain.

Caroline Scott-Thomas

The FDA IS MAKING THEM setup and TAKE NOTICE ! TEX
 
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