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GPC: Ga. peanut plant exec pleads guilty in deadly Salmonella outbreak

The former processing plant manager for Peanut Corporation of America in Blakely, Georgia, has pleaded guilty to multiple federal felony counts stemming from a deadly 2008-2009 Salmonella outbreak, reports Food Safety News. Samuel Lightsey and the government reached a plea agreement on Wednesday for cooperation against other defendants. The deal could keep his prison term to no more than six years, FSN reports. Lightsey and three other former executives of the now-defunct PCA, pleaded not guilty…

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