Giant Food Stores, Inc. v. Commonwealth, Department of Health

DOYLE, Judge.

Giant Food Stores, Inc., appeals an order of a Hearing Examiner who affirmed a decision of the Department of Heath, Division of Special Food Programs, refusing to recertify Giant as an authorized retailer in the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC Program). 1

Giant owns a supermarket, known as Giant Food Store # 72, in State College, Pennsylvania, which had been certified by the Department as a WIC vendor. The WIC Program certification for Store #72 was scheduled to expire and, in January of 1997, Giant submitted an application to the Department…