Washington, DC
January 7, 2008
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
today announced that a Norton, Massachusetts seed company has
paid USDA $1,550 to settle alleged violations of the Federal
Seed Act.
The company,
Plantation Products Inc., 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 one shipment of
onion seed, made to Texas, and one shipment each of collard and
parsley, made to Indiana, alleged to be in violation of the
Federal Seed Act.
The alleged violations were false labeling as to germination
percentage.
AMS administers the act with the help of state seed
officials. Seed regulatory officials in Indiana and Texas
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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