State Calf Sale
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sale, which averaged $1,148.
The sale was managed by the
Pennsylvania Holstein
Association. Chairman of the state
association’s sale committee is
Lewis Berkley, Berlin.
The second high seller of the state calf sale was Joell-Haven
Mars Jen-ET. Pictured with the Mars-Tony daughter are,
from left: Mike Weimer and Charles Backus, auctioneers;
Lewis Berkley, chairman of the PHA sale committee; Steve
Wilson, PHA director of sales; Horace Backus, pedigrees; and
Kim Kriebel.
The sale staff included; Charles
Backus and Mike Weimer, auc
tioneers; Horace Backus,
pedigrees; Jay Howes, Bill Nichol,
Clarence Stauffer, Tom Dum, Jr ,
and Steve Wilson, nngmen.
Pa. firm loses meat inspection permit
WASHINGic >i, D.C. - Federal
meat inspection menaces have
been indefinitely withdrawn from
a Linwood, Pa., meat processing
firm because of felony convictions
of the firm’s owner for drug
trafficking and for transmitting
wager information.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
administrative law judge Victor
Palmer on Dec. 19 ordered in
spection denied to Summit Beef
Co., based on the criminal actions
of the firm’s owner, Vincent L.
Perry, of Wilmington, Del
Perry, now serving a three-year
prison term for the drug con
viction, is also under indictment
with three other men for con
spiracy to sell uninspected meat
for human consumption.
One of the four men indicted in
the meat case has since pledded
guilty to violating meat inspection
laws. In a plea bargain agreement,
Dominic Impagliazzo, a former
Summit employee, pleaded guilty
Feb. 28, to conspiracy and to
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 6,1985-Al9
transporting uninspected meat
with intent to defraud Sentencing
is set for April 22.
The meat scheme, which
spanned three years, was halted
when federal and Pennsylvania
state officials raided the company
in February 1984.
“Immediately following the
raid, USDA temporarily
suspended operations at Summit
until all meat at the plant had been
reinspected,” according to Donald
Houston, administrator of USDA’s
Food Safety and Inspection Ser
vice.
The company then resumed
limited operations, as permitted
under law. However, in April-just
before Perry’s drug trafficking
conviction-the plant voluntarily
halted operations and asked that
federal inspection be suspended,
Houston said. The wager in
formation conviction occurred in
1982.
Last August, Summit requested
that inspection be reinstated so the
company could once again
operate. USDA then filed a com
plaint against Summit requesting
the indefinite withdrawal of in
spection. Because Summit failed to
file an answer to the complaint,
Judge Palmer issued a Decision
and Order indefinitely with
drawing meat inspection services.
Under law, federal meat in
spection may be denied anyone
found unfit to receive inspection
services because of a felony
conviction.
The indictment on the con
spiracy charges alleged that the
Taylor Pet Food Co.,
Downingtown, Pa., slaughtered
and boned uninspected cattle and
sold the meat to Summit. The
company then allegedly resold the
product to its wholesale
customers. A trial on those
charges is set for April.
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