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Publisher’s Platform: If I was part of Caito Foods, I’d be nervous

By Bill Marler on April 29, 2019
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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…
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Top food safety stories include regs, recalls, respects this year

By Dan Flynn on December 22, 2017

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 …
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Egg man starts 3-month term as ‘responsible corporate official’

By Dan Flynn on November 24, 2017
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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,…
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Peter DeCoster gets out of federal hospital prison on Monday

By Dan Flynn on October 21, 2017

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…
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DeCosters make Top 10 list of cases justices should have heard

By News Desk on August 7, 2017

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…
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Peter DeCoster in federal prison hospital in Minnesota

By Dan Flynn on July 29, 2017

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…
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DeCosters must surrender; egg men finally to serve their time

By Dan Flynn on June 27, 2017

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…
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DeCosters want to choose where they serve their 3 months

By Dan Flynn on June 7, 2017

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…
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Publisher’s Platform: Supreme Court weighs in without a word

By Bill Marler on May 25, 2017

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.

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Supreme Court will not review DeCoster sentences in egg cases

By Dan Flynn on May 23, 2017

Austin “Jack” DeCoster, 83, and his 53-year old son Peter DeCoster are not going to get their day in the Supreme Court after all, but instead are likely to spend their summer and fall taking…
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