<p style="text-indent:0px; line-height:12px;"><span style="font-weight:bold;line-height:130%"> Washington, D.C.</span><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">By ANUK Staff<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">5.9.13</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>The U.S.D.A has cited Liborio Market Inc for failure to pay for produce.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><img src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacyWriterImages/hl_usda_may_2013_BANNERv2.jpg" alt="images 050913" /><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">The Pasadena, California-based company failed to make full payment of $123,345 to nine sellers purchased between July 2010 and June 2012. Liborio Market Inc will now have an opportunity to request a hearing. If the company is found to have committed repeated and flagrant violations, it will be barred from the produce industry for two years.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><img src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacyWriterImages/hl_usda_may_2013_body01.jpg" alt="images 050913" /><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), PACA Division, regulates the fair trading practices of produce companies operating under PACA. In the past three years, USDA resolved approximately 5,000 claims filed under PACA involving almost $96 million.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href="http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/" target="_new">AMS</a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
