DeCosters get jail sentence for tainted eggs
A father and son who previously operated egg farms in Maine have been sentenced to three months in jail for their involvement with a 2010 salmonella outbreak.
The Portland Press Herald reported that Austin “Jack” DeCoster, 81, of Turner, and his son, Peter, 51, of Clarion, Iowa, received the sentence, along with $100,000 fines each, in federal court in Sioux City on Monday. DeCoster’s companies have previously paid fines in the millions of dollars for various violations over the past 50 years.
The DeCosters pleaded guilty last year to selling contaminated eggs in Iowa through their company, Quality Egg. The company itself faced $6.8 million in fines. The contaminated eggs prompted a salmonella outbreak in 2010, with nearly 2,000 officially confirmed cases and more than 56,000 estimated to have gotten sick.
Source: Portland Press Herald
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