Egg Producers to Spend 3 Months in Prison for 2010 Salmonella Outbreak
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, MO has denied appeals from Austin “Jack” DeCoster and his son Peter DeCoster--the pair behind a multistate Salmonella outbreak in 2010 that sickened roughly 56,000 people. The DeCosters’ family-owned company, Quality Egg LLC, was said to be the largest egg producer in the U.S. Now, both father and son--ages 82 and 52, respectively-- will be spending the next 3 months in a Yankton, SD federal prison.
Most of the judges involved decided to uphold a judgment handed down in July by U.S. District Court Judge Mark W. Bennett, who recommended the two be sentenced to 3 months behind bars.