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Quality Egg Leaders Heading to Prison After 2010 Outbreak
USAgNet - 06/28/2017
A father and son whose Iowa-based egg production company caused a massive 2010 salmonella outbreak have exhausted their appeals and a federal judge has ordered them to begin serving prison sentences. Both have been sentenced by a U.S. district judge
to serve three months in prison.
According to the Associated Press, the sentences jarred the food and drug manufacturing industry because it's rare that corporate officials are held personally responsible for an outbreak of foodborne illness.
Last week, the judge ordered 53-year-old Peter DeCoster to report to the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, South Dakota, a minimum security facility that is about 200 miles west of his home in Clarion, Iowa. DeCoster must surrender himself to authorities
after July 30 when he is notified by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons the facility is ready to receive him. His 83-year-old father Austin "Jack" DeCoster must serve his three-month term 30 days after Peter is released. He must report to the Federal Correctional
Institution in Berlin, New Hampshire, a location Bennett approved at DeCoster's request.
The DeCosters, who have already paid $100,000 each in criminal penalties, also owe $83,000 in restitution, according to court documents.
Quality Egg paid a $6.8 million fine after pleading guilty to felony charges of shipping eggs with false processing and expiration dates and bribing a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspector to approve sales of poor-quality eggs.
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