Dive Summary:

• The New Mexico company that recently applied for a permit to begin the slaughter of horses, has recently come under fire as federal inspectors claim they have issued several warnings to the company about unsanitary conditions.
• These conditions include the inappropriate disposal of animal remains.  One inspector cited piles of carcasses along the back fence of the facility.
• Representatives of the company say these claims are completely unfounded.  The company hopes has been trying to obtain a permit for horse meat, however these new allegations will certainly effect that process. 

From the article:

The complaints included a 2010 letter to state health officials from an Agriculture Department inspector reporting that piles of animal remains were as high as 15 feet high along the back property line of the plant. “I am told that during fly season the pile literally moves due to maggots,” wrote Ron C. Nelson, the district manager for the department’s Food Safety Inspection Service in Denver, who took pictures of what he saw. ...