Justice Department Sues Agri Stats for Allegedly Enabling Meat Companies to Collude on Prices and Output

Justice Department sues Agri Stats for operating information exchanges among meat processors that violate antitrust laws.
Agri Stats collected and distributed competitively sensitive data on prices, costs, and output among competing meat companies.
The data exchanges allowed companies to coordinate on prices and output, harming consumers and sellers.
Agri Stats understood the anticompetitive use of the data but still organized the exchanges.
The lawsuit alleges Agri Stats' scheme continues today in chicken processing and aims to resume pork and turkey data reporting.

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Posted 9/28/2023, 3:03:06 PM