date:Jun 10, 2014
US-based egg producer Quality Egg has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a fine of $6.8m for selling substandard eggs with false labeling and tainted products that resulted in nationwide outbreak of salmonella in 2010.
Back then, the outbreak sickened many people and forced the company to recall 550 million eggs, which were sold for around eight months in 2010.
As per the plea agreement revealed in federal court in Sioux City, Iowa, the company's owner Austin DeCoster and chief operating officer