9.27.2013

Huffington Post Popular News: Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak Case: Little-Used Charges Employed Against Colorado Farmers

DENVER -- It took two years for federal prosecutors to bring criminal charges against the owners of a southeastern Colorado cantaloupe farm linked to a 2011 listeria epidemic that killed 33 people.


And the charges are little-used misdemeanor counts of introducing adulterated food into interstate commerce. Only four other people have faced such charges in the past decade, according to an attorney who specializes in food-safety cases.




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