Former peanut company CEO sentenced to 28 years for salmonella outbreak

The building of the now-closed Peanut Corporation of America plant is pictured in BlakelyThe former owner of a peanut company in Georgia was sentenced to 28 years in prison on Monday for his role in a salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and sickened hundreds, a rare instance of jail time in a food contamination case. Stewart Parnell, 61, who once oversaw Peanut Corporation of America, and his brother, Michael Parnell, 56, who was a food broker on the company&;s behalf, were convicted on federal conspiracy charges in September 2014 for knowingly shipping salmonella-tainted peanuts to customers. Contamination at the company&039;s plant in Blakely, Georgia, led to one of the largest food recalls in U.S. history and forced the company into liquidation.

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Jackie Collins, doyenne of the steamy Hollywood novel, dies at 77

File photo of British author Collins posing for a photograph in New YorkBy Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Jackie Collins, the best-selling author of dozens of steamy novels who depicted the boardrooms and bedrooms of Hollywood&;s power crowd, died on Saturday of breast cancer at age 77, her family said. The British-born Collins, younger sister of actress Joan Collins, died in Los Angeles, said her spokeswoman Melody Korenbrot. "It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the death of our beautiful, dynamic and one of a kind mother, Jackie Collins, who died of breast cancer today," the family said in a statement.

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