Legal Challenges
Pepperoni rolls faced a legal challenge in 1987 when the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed re-classifying bakeries that manufactured the rolls as meat packing plants, thus subjecting them to stricter regulations. The bakery owners claimed, however, that the costs of meeting the new regulations would put them out of business. The USDA's proposal was quashed after Jay Rockefeller, U.S. Senator for West Virginia, intervened.
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