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U.S., Canadian and Mexican Meat and Livestock Groups Appeal COOL
2013-09-30 17:41:00| National Hog Farmer
By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, DC U.S., Canadian, and Mexican meat and livestock organizations filed their initial brief as part of an appeal of a September 11 decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denying a motion for a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit to block implementation of the USDAs final rule on country-of-origin labeling (COOL). The organizations argue that the trial court incorrectly accepted the Agricultural Marketing Services (AMS) argument, which was inconsistent with rationale offered by AMS in the final rule, that the new final rule is to correct misleading speech and prevent consumer deception that purportedly occurred because of requirements AMS imposed in its 2009 version of the rule. read more
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