U.S. Attorney News Release: Business Owners Plead Guilty to Distributing Tainted Ingredient Used in Pet Food
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Nevada company and its owners pleaded guilty in federal court today to distributing a tainted ingredient used to make pet food, which resulted in a nationwide recall of pet food and the death and serious illness of countless pets across the United States in 2007.