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Article: Judge rules batter-coated, frozen french fries really a fresh veggie.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- June 15, 2004
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Byline: Andrew Martin
WASHINGTON _ French fries may be the bane of low-carb diets and obesity foes, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a federal judge in Texas have another name for the popular food: fresh vegetable.
U.S. District Judge Richard Schell last week endorsed little-noticed changes by the USDA to federal regulations that govern what defines a fresh vegetable. The changes were made at the behest of the french-fry industry, which has spent the last five decades pushing for revisions to the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.
Known as PACA, the law was passed by Congress in 1930 to protect fruit and vegetable farmers in the ...