Atlanta, September 22 (RHC)-- A federal judge in the U.S. state of Georgia has sentenced the former executive of a peanut company to 28 years in prison for crimes related to a salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and sickened hundreds more.
Stewart Parnell, the former head of Peanut Corporation of America, was convicted of 71 criminal counts for knowingly shipping salmonella-tainted peanut butter from the Georgia facility to companies like Kellogg’s.
