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Peanut exec gets 28 years in jail after salmonella outbreak

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By Moni Basu CNN
September 21, 2015 - 2:56 pm
 

A former peanut company owner was sentenced Monday to 28 years in jail for knowingly shipping out salmonella-tainted products in a 2008 outbreak that killed nine people and sickened hundreds of others.

Stewart Parnell, 61, was convicted last year on 72 counts of federal fraud and conspiracy charges in what food safety advocates are calling a precedent-setting case.

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