The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced Monday that it is placing sanctions on three produce businesses for “failing to meet their contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the PACA (Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act).”

USDA imposed sanctions on a firm in Fresno, Calif., for failing to meet its contractual obligations under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.