Former Peanut Company Exec. Receives Largest Criminal Sentence In Food Safety Case

September 22, 2015 at 5:51 PM
Stewart Parnell, former president of the Peanut Corporation of America, the company responsible for spreading salmonella-positive peanut products, received the largest criminal sentence in a food safety case Monday (Sept. 21), with two other company officials also facing jail time for their roles in the outbreak. Parnell was sentenced to 28 years in prison and three years of supervised release by Senior U.S. District Court Judge W. Louis Stands of the Middle District of Georgia. Michael Parnell, who worked as...


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