ConAgra to pay $11.2M to settle salmonella criminal case

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By RUSS BYNUM

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — ConAgra Foods has agreed to pay $11.2 million in criminal fines and forfeitures to settle a charge that the company shipped salmonella-tainted Peter Pan peanut butter from its Georgia plant more than eight years ago.

Documents outlining a plea deal with federal prosecutors were filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Georgia. ConAgra agreed to plead guilty to a single charge of shipping adulterated food, a misdemeanor, and pay $8 million in fines plus $3.2 million in forfeitures.

ConAgra was charged as a company. No executives were charged.

In 2007, a salmonella outbreak linked to the company's Sylvester, Georgia, plant that produces Peter Pan peanut butter was blamed for sickening at least 625 people in 47 states. The Omaha, Nebraska, based company recalled all of its peanut butter.


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20150520/us--peanut_butter-salmonella_investigation-27666c2f47.html

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Shouldn't that be Peter Poop Peanut Butter?

Sickening 625 people is a misdemeanor. First, shouldn't there be at least 625 charges? And shouldn't the charges be something like reckless endangerment?

[PSPS]

2. Another "criminal case" involving, apparently, no human criminals.

ConAgra was charged as a company. No executives were charged.

Yes, those "campaign contributions" do produce benefits.

[Sunlei]

3. That is not enough of a fine,how many didn't report? What about Americas salmonella chicken problem?

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. Con: With, Agra: Excessive Pain. They sure do cause many people excessive pain!