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Miami cheese company owner draws 15-month prison term

By Coral Beach on November 16, 2016

The owner of Miami-based cheese company Oasis Brands Inc. is the most recent company executive to be sentenced for criminal violations related to pathogen-contaminated food linked to a deadly outbreak.

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New normal: Roos Foods fined $100,000 in criminal food case

By Dan Flynn on March 4, 2016

When a business is found responsible for sickening people with a foodborne illness, the new normal is the filing of criminal charges. The latest to find that out is Delaware’s Roos Foods Inc., which shut…
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Peanut Corp. Executives Plead Innocent

By News Desk on February 28, 2013

Four of the Peanut Corporation of America executives indicted with federal criminal charges last week have pleaded innocent to the 76-count charges that include fraud, conspiracy, and the introduction of adulterated food into interstate commerce…
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Peanut Corp. Victims: Indictment Sets an Example

By James Andrews on February 25, 2013

Following the U.S. Department of Justice’s indictment of former Peanut Corporation of America executives on Thursday, the families of victims poisoned by the company responded with joy and relief at the prospect of a criminal…
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Peanut Corp. Hearings: What Happens Now?

By Andy Frame on February 24, 2013

Four years after a Salmonella outbreak was processed, packaged, and delivered to customers around the country, the Department of Justice charged five Peanut Corporation of America executives and employees with an array of federal crimes,…
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Criminal Convictions Top FSIS Enforcement Tools Used in Latest Quarter Report

By Dan Flynn on November 30, 2012

The convictions and sentences entered for a Gardena, CA meat company and its president were the centerpiece of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s criminal enforcement actions during the third quarter of the federal fiscal year,…
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FDA’s Power to Prosecute

By Andy Frame on October 17, 2012

More than a year after the deadly Listeria outbreak that stemmed from Jensen Farms’ cantaloupes was first detected, criminal charges have yet to be filed against the company, but the Food and Drug Administration’s website…
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Deadly Listeria Outbreak Focus of Federal Criminal Probe

By Dan Flynn on August 15, 2012

The U.S. Attorney for Colorado is close to finishing a federal criminal investigation into the deadly 2011 Listeria outbreak associated with cantaloupes from Jensen Farms, the nonprofit Denver-based I-News Network reports. James Pena, who heads…
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Food Safety Penalties, Raw Milk Among Senate Farm Bill Amendments

By Helena Bottemiller on June 11, 2012

Senators have filed more than 80 amendments to the Farm Bill, which the upper chamber is expected to debate this week. The thousand plus page bill — which aims to save taxpayers $23 billion over…
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Egg Baron “Jack” DeCoster: Focus of Criminal Probe

By News Desk on May 17, 2012

Austin “Jack” DeCoster, son Peter DeCoster, and Patsy Larson, chief financial officer for Quality Egg, are targets of a federal criminal investigation, the Bangor Daily News reported Wednesday.

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