Washington, DC
September 9, 2008
AMS No. 175-08
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
today announced that a Nampa, Idaho, seed company has paid USDA
$3,250 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 one shipment of
annual ryegrass seed to Missouri, one shipment of a lawn seed
mixture to Virginia, and one orchardgrass seed shipment to
Georgia alleged to be in violation of the Federal Seed Act.
The alleged violations, while not the same for all shipments,
were:
-false labeling as to pure
seed and other crop seed;
-false labeling as to the presence of noxious-weed seed, and
-false labeling as to date of test.
AMS administers the act with the
help of state seed officials. Seed regulatory officials in
Georgia, Missouri, and Virginia 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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