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Chipotle agrees to pay $25 million federal fine for role in some outbreaks

By News Desk on April 22, 2020

In what federal prosecutors say is the largest ever fine of its kind, operators of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. have agreed to pay $25 million to resolve criminal charges related to foodborne illness outbreaks from…
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Convicted PCA execs want more time for appeal oral arguments

By Dan Flynn on October 24, 2017

In two weeks, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta will turn its attention to the criminal appeals of Stewart Parnell, his brother Michael Parnell and his former employee Mary Wilkerson.

The trio was convicted…
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Feds seek shut down LA seafood processor for Listeria, filth

By Dan Flynn on October 6, 2017

Ready-to-eat, smoked fish and fishery products produced by Michel Cordon Bleu Inc. in Los Angeles from such raw fish as Florida salmon and Idaho trout and sold to restaurants, retailers, hotels and cruise ships are…
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Target pulls Just Mayo, all Hampton Creek foods from shelves

By Coral Beach on June 24, 2017

Target has pulled all Hampton Creek products, including “Just Mayo,” pending further review because of food safety concerns.

Officials with the country’s second largest retailer have been in contact with the Food and Drug Administration…
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FDA, U.S. Marshals raid Minnesota warehouse, seize food

By News Desk on June 22, 2017

Professional Warehouse and Distribution Inc., a repeat offender on the FDA’s books, won’t be storing food for human consumption any more according to the owner who spoke after U.S. Marshals seized food from the rodent-infested…
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Court May Not Have Power to Hasten FSMA Implementation, Judge Says

By News Desk on April 2, 2013

The parties suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its failure to meet several deadlines laid out in the Food Safety Modernization Act got discouraging news at a hearing last week when a federal…
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Path to Illnesses and Deaths Began Five Years Before Salmonella Outbreak

By Dan Flynn on February 22, 2013

The 52-page Grand Jury indictment of Stewart and Michael Parnell, Samuel Lightsey and Mary Wilkerson tells us a lot more than we knew about now-liquidated Peanut Corporation of America (PCA). The indictment of the four …
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Peanut Corporation of America from Inception to Indictment: A Timeline

By Gretchen Goetz on February 22, 2013

The Peanut Corporation of America shut down in 2009 after a massive outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium linked to its products left the company bankrupt. Evidence that company officials knowingly released contaminated product onto the marketplace …
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Landmark Settlement Reached in Westland-Hallmark Meat Case

By Helena Bottemiller on November 18, 2012

The now-defunct Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. sparked the largest-ever meat recall after egregious, undercover abuse footage was made public in 2008 and now the company has sparked the largest-ever judgement for an animal abuse case. On…
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Letter From The Editor: DOJ

By Dan Flynn on May 6, 2012

Everything I know about the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), I learned from a U.S. District Attorney for Idaho years ago.   He was, I think, taken aback by how little this then-recent J-School, Political

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Sen. Leahy Presses for Update on PCA Investigation

By Helena Bottemiller on February 23, 2011

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) sent a letter Tuesday to the Department of Justice inquiring about the status of the department’s investigation into Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), the company implicated in a

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