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Molloy’s instructions to Grace jury had some weird omissions.
It took an hour for Judge Donald Molloy to give the jury its instructions. Most sounded like a straight lecture on the eight criminal charges in the indictment, and he asked both the defense and...
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Jury acquits W.R. Grace of all criminal charges. Many wonder how it happened.
A juror wept as a clerk stood before Judge Donald Molloy’s bench and reported that W.R. Grace and Co. and three of its former executives were not guilty of charges brought by the government in the...
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Honey laundering thrives despite fed crackdown on two operations smuggling...
Federal investigators from various agencies in Seattle and Chicago chased illegally labeled Chinese honey from the slums of the Philippines through dilapidated Thai warehouses and into ports up and...
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Law enforcement and food inspectors say they’re closely watching the success...
Illegal honey laundering may become a lot more difficult because French scientists from the Université de Lyon have developed and tested a simple method that can distinguish pure, natural honeys from...
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Pesticide is too dangerous for use in the U.S., but apparently it’s just fine...
Carbofuran, an extremely dangerous pesticide that will be banned in the U.S., can still be sold and used overseas. This raises concerns among food safety experts that farm workers and their families in...
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Kill step and an adequate lethality. We can’t be talking about food.
Why would words like “kill step” and “adequate lethality” be in the lexicon of the USDA, the Food and Drug Administration and major manufacturers of heat-to-eat food? After putting aside all the...
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Government is sending money to care for asbestos victims in Libby. Will W.R....
People in Libby, Mont. are through licking their wounds and are working to put the acquittal earlier this month of W.R. Grace and its executives behind them. But many say they live in fear that the...
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Crime lab tools can identify mislabeled and smuggled seafood faster and...
Food scientists are taking a page out of the crime fighting handbook to figure out whether consumers and restaurants are actually getting the seafood they are paying for. A study published in the...
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Too many Chinese food producers add poisons to food to increase profits. Will...
Many food exports from China may be dangerous, but some of the tricks used to fool Chinese shoppers are even more treacherous. Everyone knows about the about the tens of thousands of Chinese infants...
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