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Ohio firm pays $2,200 to settle seed case
Washington, DC, USA
October 1, 2009
AMS No. 199-09
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced that The Scotts Company, a seed company operating out of Marysville, Ohio, has paid $2,200 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act. The company settled the case in agreement with AMS officials. The company neither admitted nor denied the charges brought against them.
This settlement resolves cases which involved one shipment of a lawn seed mixture to Georgia, one shipment of a tall fescue seed mixture to Kentucky, and one shipment of Kentucky bluegrass to Missouri. The alleged violations, while not the same for all shipments, were as follows:
- -false labeling as to pure seed and inert matter; and
- -false labeling as to the germination percentages.
AMS administers the Federal Seed Act with the assistance of state seed officials. The investigation was completed through the joint efforts of AMS and seed regulatory officials in Georgia, Kentucky, and Missouri. The Federal Seed Act is a truth-in-labeling law designed to protect farmers and consumers who buy seed.
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