A provincial court judge has fined a southern Alberta organic turkey operation for meat inspection violations.
Cameron Leth and Wheatland Select Organic Turkey pleaded guilty to the charges in a joint submission to the provincial court in Lethbridge.
Judge D.G. Redman fined Leth $50,000 and Wheatland Select Organic Turkey of Taber $75,000.
A Canadian Food Inspection Agency investigation found that Leth failed to forward related meat samples to a laboratory for a microbiological analysis for the presence of salmonella and escherichia before exporting the product to the United States between October 2003 and December 2005.
Leth was also found to have submitted analytical reports that were copies of those that had been previously completed by the laboratory, with changed dates and lot numbers.
