Correspondence with ecommerce companies regarding mystery seeds (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service)
| Tracking # |
2021-APHIS-00980-F |
| Multi Request | Correspondence with ecommerce companies regarding mystery seeds |
| Submitted | Nov. 20, 2020 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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From: Adrianne Jeffries
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
Copies of emails sent to, received from, or copied (cc and bcc) to employees and representatives of Amazon, Alibaba, and eBay regarding the issue of "mystery seeds," a.k.a. unsolicited seed shipments from China, Malaysia, and other countries, being shipped into the U.S. between 6/1/2020 and present.
This phenomenon was covered widely in the media, ex: https://www.vice.com/en/article/akz9qk/hundreds-of-americans-planted-chinese-mystery-seeds
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Adrianne Jeffries
From: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service
Attached is a correspondence pertaining to your recent (FOIA) request.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Nov. 20, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2021-APHIS-00980-F.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Adrianne Jeffries
Hi, I'm just checking on the status of this. Thank you!
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Nov. 20, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2021-APHIS-00980-F.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Nov. 20, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2021-APHIS-00980-F.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Nov. 20, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2021-APHIS-00980-F.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service
Adrianne Jeffries,
We are attempting to contact you in order to clarify your request and have not as yet received any response back regarding this and we would very much like to speak with you in order to clear this up and press forward with completing the search for records and getting you the information you are seeking.
If you have any questions or other concern, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.
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From: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service
Hello,
My colleague Brion McConville has attempted to reach you several times to clarify your FOIA request, 2021-APHIS-00980-F. This is the only email we have for you. Can you please respond by May 25th? If we do not hear from you, we will need to close this request administratively. Thank you!
Andrea McNally
Management and Program Analyst
Legislative and Public Affairs-FOIA
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA
202-799-7026
Andrea.c.mcnally@usda.gov<mailto:Andrea.c.mcnally@usda.gov>
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