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stouffville suntribune thursday aug 28 2003 17 retailers angry theyre on tainted meat list by linda johnson staff writer york region meat store owners say theyve been wrongly branded sellers of tainted meat after their names appeared on a list of customers of a meat packing company whose products have been called a potential public health hazard aylmer meat packers inc was closed down monday by the province after inspectors said the company failed to follow adequate inspection procedures it advised con sumers to avoid all beef and beef products from the plant while officials have not formally announced the problem with the meat they are investigating the possibil ity the company was process ing livestock which died before slaughter but of the four area meat companies on the list of aylmers customers three said they had not bought any products from aylmer in sometime tom carvelli manager of pf meat products in markham said the company has not bought any meat from aylmer since april 25 he was shocked to see his company on the list im really worried its not as if ive done anything wrong but im suffering already because of the allega tions against another plant he said noting he had only three customers by about 330 pm tuesday v usually he has about 30 to 40 customers by that time on a weekday he said mr carvelli said he does- nt understand why no one contacted stores first to check if they bought meat from the plant before publishing their harries he also criticized the gov- eminent for not providing more specific information as is usually done indicating the type of products and dates of purchase it makes no sense he said to advise consumers to ask whether the stores have sold the affected product when they dont know what prod uct is under suspicion he said he received about 100 calls from customers tuesday asking about prod uct they bought in the past i dont even have answers for them all i know is ifs riot from there but i cant edu cate them any further so they dont have to worry about it what are they recalling i have no idea he said m i know is my name is on that list its on the website its on 680 news on 640 its on the fourth page of the sun today listed as one of the stores car rying the beef products and im not even carrying them steve szuidcs who man- ages balaton wholesale meat products in concord said it too should not have been on the list the sad tiring about it is we havent purchased any beef frorri them in the last three months there are so many peo ple on the listeveryqne gets on the list and there are cus tomers who havent even bought from aylmers in a year he said an employee of another markham store richmond hill wholesale meats said firmly it too had not recently bought any meat from aylmer the owner of the only area store that bought food from aylmers was more critical of the inspection system which he said was failing both con sumers and retailers alex di lucia of alex quality meats in markham wondered why the plant was 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