date:Sep 17, 2012
emselves in the months before the outbreak. An Iowa State University laboratory sent reports to Wasmund in May 2010 showing that salmonella was present in the internal organs of dead chickens that were tested.
Prosecutors did not seek Wasmund's detention, and U.S. Magistrate Judge Leonard Strand ordered him released pending sentencing, which has not been set.
Wasmund faces up to five years in prison for the felony violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which punishes corporate