No Charges In E. coli Outbreak Tied To Spinach

[Archae]

Source: WISN-TV, Milwaukee

SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal prosecutors have decided that criminal charges are not warranted in last year's nationwide E. coli outbreak linked to fresh California spinach, the U.S. attorney in San Francisco said Thursday.

Following the outbreak that led to the deaths of three people, including a Manitowoc, Wis., woman, and sickened about 200 others, FBI agents raided two produce processing plants and several farms for evidence of environmental and food-safety violations.

The investigation did not find that growers or processors had deliberately skirted the law or were negligent in preventing tainted foods from entering the marketplace, U.S. Attorney Scott Schools said.

Read more: http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/health/13549488/detail.html

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The criminal charges should be leveled at the Bush crony-infested FDA! :grr:

[Horse with no Name]

1. Not surprising at all.

Only poor and middle class people are held accountable to anything. The corporations and the wealthy trample over the rest of us unabated.
Unless we see a CHANGE in the WH, this will continue.

[orleans]

2. and what ever came of that one hearing about the poisoned pet food?

we're probably really cracking down on china and what we can import--but, because congress is slow and deliberate, we probably just don't notice yet.