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Anonymous

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This sounds to me like the Judge is saying USDA can run you in circles forever and is unchallengable by anyone :???: :(

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LEGAL/REGULATORY NEWS
Court rules against Montana Quality Foods

by Pete Hisey on 9/12/2006 for Meatingplace.com


A Washington, D.C. District Court ruled that Montana Quality Foods and Processing, a Miles City, Mont.-based slaughter and processing facility, had not exhausted its administrative remedies in a dispute with USDA, and threw the company's case out of court.

The long-running dispute concerns ground beef that tested positive for E. coli at the Montana Quality Foods plant. The company's president, John Munsell, contended that the source of the infection was his supplier, ConAgra Foods, which has since exited the fresh meat business. Munsell was buying large chubs of coarsely ground beef from ConAgra, then processing it along with beef from his slaughter operation into consumer products.

USDA inspectors witnessed the meat being fed directly from containers into clean grinders, but that evidence was rejected by USDA as hearsay, and the agency, rather than investigating ConAgra, set up an investigation of Munsell's family-owned processor. Munsell cried foul and demanded that the investigation include the source of the beef. USDA refused.

The court, while dismissing the case, was sympathetic, noting that Munsell appeared to have made a good-faith attempt to resolve the problem with USDA, but that USDA procedures are such that there is "a lack of any kind of final refusal to plaintiff's claims by the USDA that plaintiffs can present to this Court."
 

Econ101

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If the USDA couldn't do this kind of thing, the politiicans couldn't garner their campaign contributions from the industries they are supposed to regulate.


Our courts seem to have given them the green light with no oversight.
 

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