ConAgra is
paying a record fine of $8 million for its part in a peanut food-poisoning
scandal in early 2007.
Salmonella
sickened at least 625 people in 47 states who ate Peter Pan brand peanut butter
produced at a plant in Sylvester, Georgia.
ConAgra’s total
bill to settle the criminal case is $11.5 million, not counting how much it
paid lawyers and consultants.
In 2014,
brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell were sent to prison for running an
abysmally rotten peanut-processing plant in Georgia.
Peanut Corp.
marketed tainted peanuts across North America. It’s not clear in the reports
from the Atlanta court where ConAgra’s settlement was approved this week whether
peanuts for its products came from the Parnell brothers’ Peanut Corp.
