RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) – The state’s largest slaughterhouse has reopened after settling a federal complaint.

Fresh Farms Beef Inc. suspended operations earlier this month after federal officials ordered it to because of a series of alleged food safety violations.

Neither the company nor the federal regulators would discuss the problems that led to the shutdown at the time.

Fresh Farms Beef owner Nick Greeno said Thursday that the problems involved a shipping snafu.

He said meat that was supposed to go from one processing plant actually went to another, a problem that he blamed on a trucker and not on the Fresh Farms operation.

AP-ES-12-29-05 1931EST