PACA Sanctions Lifted on Bravo Supermarket

<p style="text-indent:0px; line-height:12px;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">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">2.19.13</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>The USDA has lifted PACA reparation sanctions on the Fort Meyers, FL –based Mi Supermercado 2 LLC, doing business as Bravo Supermarket. The company has met its obligations in paying reparations issued against it under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), according to a press release.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">The company is now eligible to conduct business in the produce industry once they apply for, and are issued, a PACA license. Oqab Abuoqab, listed as a member of the business, may now be employed by or affiliated with any PACA licensee.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">A reparation order may be issued on a business, revoking a company’s business license, if the company fails to meet legal obligations for buying and selling produce in the US. If employment restriction is issued onto a company under PACA, the company must first pay PACA reparations before the USDA declares the company eligible for business and reinstates its business license.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), an agency within the USDA, regulates fair trade in the produce industry and oversees all activity relating to the PACA.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href=" http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateA&amp;navID=Home&amp;topNav=Home&amp;page=Home&amp;acct=AMSPW" target="_new">Agricultural Marketing Service</a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">