<p>Pilgrim's Pride Corp. received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration detailing problems at one of the firm's feed mills in Canton, Ga.</p><p>The warning letter, dated April 28, said FDA inspectors found "significant deviations" from federal regulations involving medicated feeds during a plant inspection earlier this year. The agency posted the warning letter to its Web site Wednesday.</p><p>The letter said equipment used in the production and distribution of feeds wasn't properly cleaned to avoid "unsafe contamination" of medicated and non-medicated feeds and that drug records weren't properly maintained, among other things.</p><p>Pilgrim's Pride, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Texas, is the country's second-largest chicken producer.</p><p>The company said it was notified in February after the FDA inspection turned up the "alleged" deficiencies.</p><p>Ray Atkinson, Pilgrim's Pride's spokesman, said the company sent a letter to the FDA Feb. 26 notifying the agency that it had fixed the problems. He said the FDA then sent a warning letter dated in April involving the same issues that were uncovered during the Jan. 28-Feb. 3 plant inspection.</p><p>"Our Canton operation complies with all applicable FDA requirements," Atkinson said.</p>
