AR-News: (NZ) Pet company provided tainted meat for humans, court hears

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New Zealand News
10.06.2004


A Waipukurau pet food company and its former manager are on trial for sending 
60 sheep that had hormone treatment to a meat company to be slaughtered and 
exported for human consumption. 
Medallion Petfoods faces a fine of up to $500,000 and former employee Charles 
Gordon Murdoch a fine of up to $100,000 or five years' imprisonment if 
convicted. They are charged under the Animal Products Act for altering an Animal 
Status Declaration. 
The Food Safety Authority, prosecuting in the Waipukurau District Court, said 
the sheep were part of an experiment at AgResearch's Ballantrae Hill Country 
Research Station near Woodville. 
They were sent to Medallion (formerly Total Petfoods) on February 10 by 
Ballantrae farm manager John Napier to be killed the next day. 
full story:
 
 
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3571603&thesection=news&thesubsection=general 
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