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This would probably require one individual for each of our six
cannery locations, since inspection teams insist upon immediate
entry and oftentimes are conducting simultaneous examinations at
different locations. We are already committed to an annual budget
aproaching a million dollars for employees and industry repre-
sentatives who dedicate most, or all of their time, interfacing with
such diverse federal departments and agencies as the USDA, EPA,
FEA, EEOC, OSHA, 1RS, and the Fish and Wildlife Service as
well as the FDA, together with seemingly countless duplications at
the state level.

Obviously we are reluctant to add further to this non-productive
expense in company counterparts to the bureaucracy and will do so
only out of a decision of absolute necessity.

Recently a congressional source supplied us with copies of
“minutes” produced by food and drug officials of two meetings in
which I participated last year, and of a memorandum by agency
officials to Commissioner Schmidt as a report on our industry’s
objections to the geotrichum witch hunt.

The word “minutes” is the operative term here, because by so
identifying these memoranda, these unilaterally prepared docu-
ments take on the aura of records agreed to by all participants as
factual summaries of the discussions. Nothing could be further
from the truth.

In fact, none of us from industry who participated in these
meetings were ever given the opportunity to review these so-called
minutes before they were circulated by the FDA. Secondly, these
so-called minutes placed words in my mouth that only in
moderation can I describe as misrepresentations.

Thus, I was more than amazed to learn that I was recorded in
the so-called minutes of an August meeting in San Francisco as
acknowledging that my decision to shorten daily production hours
was really to avoid processing surplus fruit, and that Tri-Valley
simply used its public statements of concern regarding the
geotrichum inspection procedure as a smoke screen to conceal this
intention!

This fictional misrepresentation was a critical move by agency
bureaucrats, because it subsequently became a vital self-serving
reference in the memorandum to Commissioner Schmidt reassuring
him that industry criticism of the agency’s actions was without
merit. Later, this fiction was repeated in a letter from the agency to
a member of congress which carried the following statement:

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