Small meatpacker sues USDA for permission to conduct BSE tests

July 15, 2013

Roger McEowen

Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, a small Kansas meatpacker, has sued the USDA for the right to test all of the cattle they slaughter for BSE. USDA bases its authority to deny Creekstone the necessary "kits" to conduct the tests on the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act of 1913.

Download complaint: Creekstonecomplaint.pdf

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