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ConAgra to pay $11.2M to settle salmonella criminal case
2015-05-22 04:21:13| Food - Topix.net
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. - ConAgra Foods agreed Wednesday to pay $11.2 million, a sum that includes the highest criminal fine ever in a U.S. food safety case, to settle a federal charge that the company shipped Peter Pan peanut butter tainted with salmonella from a plant in Georgia, sickening more than 600 people and triggering a massive recall eight years ago.
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