Kosher meat sold as Glatt Kosher traced to AgriProcessors

Kosher Today reports: Rabbis, Agencies in Urgent Effort to Protect Consumers from Kosher Meat Fraud:

A major Flatbush retailer was forced to close after it was discovered that "kosher" flanken was repackaged and mislabeled as "glatt kosher." Sources say that glatt kosher flanken were in extremely short supply of late. In ads and flyers distributed throughout the Brooklyn communities of Crown Heights, Boro Park, and Flatbush, the Kehilah Kashrus agency of Flatbush, advised consumers of a "recall" of kosher meats purchased at the kosher takeout store prior to February 1 st. Sources told Kosher Today that the mislabeled meats were also distributed by the Flatbush retailer to at least three other stores in the heavily populated Orthodox Jewish communities of Brooklyn. The meat was traced to AgriProcessors of Postville, Iowa who sold the meat to a New York distributor who in turn sold the "kosher" (non-glatt kosher) meat to the Brooklyn store.

Kosher Today follow up: How Could It Have Happened?

A Brooklyn retailer turned distributor relabeled �kosher� flanken as �glatt kosher,� misleading thousands of consumers who opt for the higher standard meat. What is most troubling to the rabbis is that the abuse happened at what is on the surface a perfect system. The proprietor was an Orthodox Jew with strong roots in the community and his business had the kosher oversight of a well-respected local certification. Perfect combination? Not really, say the rabbis, since the proprietor had access to seals and labels and took advantage of a shortage of the coveted flanken to profit from the discounted �kosher� (non-glatt) stock.

Still nobody answered the questions to CHBD.