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,SQ� ie­fJ4 <br />rvictorfood In Lodi goes on market <br /> By Julie Schmit said Dodie Aggerholm, agent N►ith Dee Nations, said Rick Weddle, manager of uary on behalf of Victor employees <br /> The Stockton Record Nitzkee in Lodi. The asking price is S7.5 the San Joaquin Partnership, a priNate/ against Victor Fine Foods and its parent <br /> The Victor Fine Foods plant in Lodi million, she added. public group formed to attract jobs and companies, Fletchers Fine Foods and Al-, <br /> has been put up for sale, dashing any Aggerholm hopes another meat-pack- industry. berta Pork Producers of Canada. <br /> hopes that its Canadian o�sner"ill reopen ing firm %+ill be interested in the plant. The plant site had a history of soil and The suit claims that Victor violated <br /> it even as a distribution site. "I'Ne had a lot of calls on it," she said. groundwater contamination due to leak- federal law by not giving workers 60-day, <br /> The meat-packing plant closed in De- At one time, the facility employed 550 ing salt brine. Aggerholm said the soil is notice of the plant's closure. <br /> cember, and 300 people lost their jobs people making Victor Fine Foods a large being retested and a S4 million deep wa- John Sternberg, spokesman for Eggles- <br /> after company officials said the firm ran part of Lodi's employment base. ter injection, put in when the plant was <br /> out of operating capital. L nlike an open Harehouse, the plant is Goehring Meats, is being used to purify ton & Siegel, w Oakland law firm rep- <br /> out <br /> the water. resenting the workers, said there is no <br /> The property for sale includes the designed for food processing and is refrig- plan at this point to bring legal action to <br /> plant, its equipment and about 58 acres. erated. so other uses would require reno- A class-action lawsuit was filed in Jan- stop a sale of the plant. <br />