Moonfleet Poultry Inc. of Fergus has logged the second win in two days of separate hearings over proposed Canadian Food Inspection Agency fines for abusing chickens.
Tribunal member Geneviève Parent heard testimony that 5,450 chickens loaded into 180 crates in January of last year were healthy and dry when loaded and were in fine condition when they arrived at Riverview Poultry in Smithville.
She dismissed CFIA’s charges against Moonfleet which therefore avoids a proposed fine of $13,000.
Charges against Moonfleet involving chickens that died en route to a processing plant, also in January, were similarly dismissed the previous day of tribunal hearings.
