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He referred to inspection reports produced by the state in which results of Mr. Cress’ inspection were checked. Several of the petitioning farmers had as many as a dozen violations of the sanitary code, ranging from having an empty medicine box in their milkhouse to having milkstone on milking equipment.State inspectors, charged by the legislature not only with enforcing Wisconsin’s Grade A code but also federal Grade A requirements, also are required to degrade a producer if he observes the same code violations at two consecutive inspections.Mr. Hanson said this was only the second time in his memory (with 40 years in the state ag department) that farmers have petitioned the state to hold a hearing on a state milk inspector. The other time was about eight years ago in the Green Bay area.The inspector in question, Mr. Cress, has been an agriculture department employee for seven years, including four as a milk inspector in the Bloomer area. He has another position now, but Tom Wildrick, Eau Claire regional director for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection said the shift of Mr. Cress to another position had nothing to do with the petition filed by the nine Bloomer area farmers because it took place long before the petition was filed.A cross-examination of Mr. Cress by Mr. Hanson, whose office is in Madison, brought this comment from Mr. Hanson:
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Country Today
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Jul 05, 1978
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