WASHINGTON, DC - As we reported previously, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) filed an administrative complaint against Vantaggio Farming Corporation for failing to pay two produce sellers. Since then, the USDA alleged that Vantaggio, a California-based company, failed to make full payment promptly in the total amount of $1,156,456 to two sellers for multiple lots of produce in violation of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
Direct from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service:
After the complaint was filed, USDA and Vantaggio entered into a Consent Decision and Order wherein Vantaggio agreed to pay the unpaid produce sellers listed in the Appendix A to the Complaint and to pay a civil penalty in the amount of $40,000.
As a result of Vantaggio satisfying the terms of the consent decision and order, the finding that it had committed repeated and flagrant PACA violations was permanently abated without further process and the case has been closed.
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