Sacramento Bee: Criminal case..moldy tomatoes.

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February 18, 2009

_Scheme admitted to distribute 'unfit for food' tomato paste_

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From Denny Walsh:

A former employee of one of the nation's largest growers and processors of

tomato products admitted Wednesday in Sacramento federal court she engaged in

the years-long distribution and mislabeling of tomato paste that contained

unlawful levels of mold and was " unfit for food. "

Lou Dahlman, who was dismissed this week as a reports and business

analyst at California-based SK Foods, L.P., pleaded guilty to one count of the

" introduction of adulterated and misbranded food into interstate commerce

with the intent to defraud and mislead. "

She admitted that for more than three years - from Nov. 23, 2004 to Jan. 21,

2008 - she caused the shipment of tomato paste with legally excessive mold

content from SK Foods to customers in Wisconsin, Utah, Pennsylvania, New York,

Kentucky, land and Ohio.

She also admitted attaching false labels to the paste showing mold counts far

below the actual levels and percentages of " natural tomato soluble solids "

materially higher than the actual percentages......

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