Copper City Meats, DBA Gold Medal Packing: Non-Compliance to Humane Livestock Handling in 2022 (USDA)

Updated on January 16, 2026.

See the detail of the non-compliance of humane livestock handling that the USDA observed at the Copper City Meats, DBA Gold Medal Packing slaughterhouse establishment in 2022.

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Inspection Date: 2021-10-26

Inspection Category: Routine

NR Number: JRF4708104926N-1

Non-Compliance Regulations:

313.2

Non-Compliance Description:

9CFR 313.2(e) Animals shall have access to water in all holding pens and, if held longer than 24 hours, access to feed. At 5:10 a.m. I CSI REDACTED while doing ante-mortem inspection of the bob veal calves, noticed that 2 barrels of water for the calves in pen 2B had nipples that were chewed off and not functioning. There was not any in that pen that were working. I brought this to a pen workers attention. I also notified management REDACTED and REDACTED of this finding. It was said that nipples had been ordered, but were not there yet at plant.