Food safety and clean water always make for a good marriage. That can be seen in a recent legal settlement involving two large dairies in Eastern Washington that were accused of contaminating the water and soil in the area. The goal of the settlement is to stop the animal waste
Continue Reading Food safety scores a win in recent water settlements
Criminal prosecutions in food cases have been quiet for the last few years.
Outbreak 2: The recent multistate investigation began on April 2, 2019, when CDC’s PulseNet identified the Salmonella Carrau outbreak. As of April 24, 2019, 117 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Carrau have been
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Editor’s Note: The Food Safety News list of the year’s most significant news is compiled annually by our writers and editors. The list for 2017 is not led by any one or two blockbuster food safety stories, but it also won’t be quickly forgotten.
It was a year when there
Continue Reading Top food safety stories include regs, recalls, respects this year
On Thanksgiving eve, 83-year-old Austin “Jack” DeCoster surrendered to federal prison authorities in Massachusetts, about 40 miles west of Boston.
DeCoster traveled from his home in Turner, ME, about 170 miles north of the “administratively secure” Federal Medical Center – Devens (FMC
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Peter DeCoster, the 54-year old son of the one-time egg baron Austin “Jack” DeCoster, is set to be released Monday from the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, MN, a facility operated by the federal Bureau of Prisons.
DeCoster served 90 days in federal custody. Now its his 83-year-old father’s turn
Continue Reading Peter DeCoster gets out of federal hospital prison on Monday
It won’t get either of the DeCosters a better place in the lunch line or relief from working a shift in the laundry, but their case has made the “Top Ten” of October-term certiorari petitions the Supreme Court should have granted.
The annual list by the 40-year-old Washington Legal Foundation
Continue Reading DeCosters make Top 10 list of cases justices should have heard
Peter DeCoster has been incarcerated in the Federal Medical Center (FMC) at Rochester, MN.
FMC Rochester is a federal prison for male inmates requiring specialized or long-term medical or mental health care. As an administrative facility of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), it holds inmates of all security classifications.
Continue Reading Peter DeCoster in federal prison hospital in Minnesota
To all the names people have called Austin “Jack” DeCoster — “habitual offender,” “bad egg,” “authoritarian” and “notorious” are among those often mentioned — add one more: “inmate.”
After losing at the federal appellate court level and being unable to obtain sentencing review by the U.S. Supreme Court, the man
Continue Reading DeCosters must surrender; egg men finally to serve their time
Since the U.S. Supreme Court denied Austin “Jack” and Peter DeCoster’s petition for writ of certiorari on May 22, time has come for the father and son to serve their jail time. They’d like to self-surrender at a prison of their choosing.
At the moment, they are back before the
Continue Reading DeCosters want to choose where they serve their 3 months
I can hear a bit of silence in the board rooms of America.
Monday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeals of Austin “Jack” DeCoster and his son, Peter DeCoster, without comment.
In April 2015 U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett sentenced the DeCosters to prison, saying they knew
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