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Article: FOOD FEE INCREASES NOT SITTING WELL THE PROPOSED INCREASE IN INSPECTION FEES HAS SOME CHEESE MAKERS UP IN ARMS.(BUSINESS)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- January 8, 2005
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Byline: Jason Stein Wisconsin State Journal
Cheese maker Steve Stettler has a beef with the state of Wisconsin over food fees.
Stettler, president of Decatur Swiss Cheese Cooperative in Brodhead, runs one of the roughly 300 state dairy plants that would bear the brunt of a proposed increase in state fees for food safety inspections.
State officials, he said, have dealt two blows to the program to help bridge the state's budget deficit. First, they raided the inspection program's $1.2 million surplus; now, officials are cutting its allocation from state tax dollars.
"So now all that expense goes back to the farmer (and processor) and ...