In late January, the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta upheld the criminal convictions and sentences in a food safety case against the Peanut Corporation of America. The convictions stem from a 2009 salmonella outbreak, which killed nine people and sickened hundreds more.
To get more details about the decision and one of the largest criminal food safety cases ever, FE talked to Michael Blume, a current partner with the law firm Venable and the former Director of the Consumer Protection Branch at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) whose office prosecuted the case.