(WHTM)– The Pennsylvania Attorney General and state Agriculture Department are suing a Lancaster County farm that has become the subject of an out-of-state food-borne illness investigation.
A complaint was filed against Miller’s Organic Farm, its owners and related business by Attorney General Michelle Henry and the state Department of Agriculture, a news release reads.
AG Henry says that state and federal officials have been trying to get the farm into legal compliance for a while.
“For years, this business has brushed off efforts to bring its commercial farm operation into compliance with the law — as all commercial farms are required to do,” Attorney General Henry said in a statement. “We cannot ignore the illnesses and further potential harm posed by distribution of these unregulated products. We have long had food safety laws in this Commonwealth to protect the public from harm. Pennsylvanians should know what is in the products they and their families are consuming.”
There are multiple violations against Pennsylvania’s Milk Sanitation Law, Food Safety Act, Retail Food Facility Safety Act, and Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law, according to the complaint that was filed Tuesday to the court.