ABC-TV has settled with Beef Products Inc. three weeks into a South Dakota jury trial determining whether the company was defamed by the network’s 2012 news reports that referred to its product as “pink slime.”
“ABC has reached an amicable resolution of its dispute with the makers of ‘lean finely textured beef,’” the network said in a statement that brought an end to a trial that began June 5 in Elk Point, South Dakota. Terms of the settlement, which also covered claims against ABC reporter Jim Avila, were not announced.
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