India, Feb. 27 -- Family Dollar Stores LLC, affiliated to Dollar Tree Inc., has agreed to pay $41.675 million after pleading guilty to holding consumer products including food and drugs in rodent-infested warehouse, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
It is the largest-ever monetary criminal penalty in a food safety case, the DOJ noted.
As per the statement by the Justice department, the company stored food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics under insanitary conditions at its West Memphis, Arkansas, distribution center.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome T. Kearney at federal court in Little Rock, Arkansas charged Family Dollar with one misdemeanor count of causing FDA-regulated products to become adulterated while being held unde...