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| Meatpacker may close its doors; truckers may not be paid
Meatpacker may close its doors; truckers may not be paid 2/26/08 Quote:
The meatpacking company involved in the largest meat recall ever may have to close its doors following the news that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will try and seek a “warranty” action against it to try to recover some of the costs associated with the massive recall.
The news that Hallmark/Westland may close could prove financially devastating for truckers who may not be paid for hauling cattle to the California slaughterhouse or transporting the finished meat products across the country.
Hallmark/Westland has been closed down since Feb. 17 when the USDA announced it was recalling more than 143 million pounds of meat based on new evidence that meat from at least one “downer” cow, which had been deemed too weak or lame, made it into the food supply chain.
In a USDA teleconference with reporters on Thursday, Feb. 21, Bill Sessions, associate deputy administrator for livestock and feed programs with the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, said the agency would “take a warranty action against Westland to try and recover some of these costs” associated with the massive beef recall.
“USDA will pursue every avenue available to us to reimburse the states for the cost of replacing the products that have to be destroyed, as well as the transportation of the product to the disposal sites, disposal fees and that sort of thing,” Sessions said.
Hallmark/Westland’s general manager, Anthony Magidow, told The Wall Street Journal on Saturday, Feb. 23, that he saw no way the company could reopen.
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