Via her blog Superbug, Maryn McKenna has an amazing post: "Sh*t, Just Ship It": Felony Prosecution For Salmonella-Peanut Executives. Get out of here and go read it. Her concluding paragraph:
If you care about food safety, this is an important case to watch. First, because the existence of the case is so unusual; second, because (according to the indictment), the behavior that prompted it was so egregious. As presented by the feds, this was not accidental contamination, or sales of a product in which contamination could not have been controlled. It was, in their 52-page telling, deliberate and repeated, and apparently indifferent to the harm it might cause. If behavior such as they describe can’t be called to account, it would be worth asking why we have food-safety laws at all.
