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China Daily | Updated: 2015-09-23 07:49
United States
Former executive gets prison term
The former owner of a peanut company was sentenced to 28 years in prison on Monday for his role in a salmonella outbreak that killed nine people, sickened hundreds and triggered one of the largest food recalls in US history, a rare instance of jail time in a food contamination case. Stewart Parnell, 61, who once oversaw Peanut Corp of America, was convicted on federal conspiracy charges in September 2014 for knowingly shipping salmonella-tainted peanuts to customers.
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