ConAgra Grocery Products has agreed to pay a $11.2 million fine and plead guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge stemming from a 2006-2007 Salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 700. The fine—the largest ever levied in a food-safety case—will be paid to resolve allegations that the company shipped contaminated peanut butter under its Peter Pan brand and Walmart’s Great Value label. It marks the latest in a string of successful efforts by the Justice Department to hold food companies or their executives accountable for outbreaks of foodborne illnesses that, added together, have sickened thousands.
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