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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) � Family Dollar Stores, a subsidiary of Dollar
Tree, pleaded guilty Monday to holding food, drugs, cosmetics and other
items under �insanitary� conditions at a now-closed, rodent-infested distribution center in West Memphis, Arkansas, federal prosecutors said.
Family Dollar faced one misdemeanor count of causing FDA-regulated
products to become adulterated while being held under insanitary
conditions at the facility, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release. The company entered into a plea deal that includes a sentence of
a fine and forfeiture amount totaling $41.675 million, the largest-ever monetary criminal penalty in a food safety case, the department said.
�When consumers go to the store, they have the right to expect that the
food and drugs on the shelves have been kept in clean, uncontaminated conditions,� said Acting Associate Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer.
�When companies violate that trust and the laws designed to keep consumers safe, the public should rest assured: The Justice Department will hold
those companies accountable.�
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/family-dollar-stores-agrees-to-pay- 41-6m-for-rodent-infested-warehouse-in-arkansas/
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