Washington, DC
July 12, 2007
The
U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that a Nampa,
Idaho, seed company has paid USDA $2,325 to settle alleged
violations of the Federal Seed Act.
The company, Allied Seed, L.L.C., settled the case in agreement
with officials from USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS).
The company neither admitted nor denied the charges.
The case resolved by the settlement involved three shipments
consisting of perennial ryegrass and orchardgrass seed alleged
to be in violation of the Federal Seed Act; there was one
shipment each to Georgia, Kentucky, and New York.
The alleged violations, while not the same for all shipments,
were:
• false labeling as to pure
seed, other crop seed, and weed seed;
• false labeling as to the presence of noxious-weed seed;
• false labeling as to date of test, and
• failure to label as a mixture of seed.
AMS administers the act with the
help of state seed officials. Seed regulatory officials in
Georgia, Kentucky, and New York cooperated with AMS in making
the investigations. The Federal Seed Act is a truth-in-labeling
law designed to protect farmers and consumers who buy seed. |
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