A federal judge sentenced Stewart Parnell, owner of the now-defunct Peanut Corp. of America, to 28 years in prison in connection with a salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and sickened hundreds, said the Associated Press, “the stiffest penalty ever handed out to a producer in a food-borne illness case.” Nine victims testified at Parnell’s… » Read More
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