The owner and a top executive of Quality Egg LLC were sentenced Monday in federal district court in Iowa for their roles in a 2010 salmonella outbreak stemming from adulterated eggs that sickened consumers nationwide.
According to the US Department of Justice, Austin “Jack” DeCoster, 81, and his son, Peter DeCoster, 51, were each fined $100,000 and sentenced to serve three months in prison. Quality Egg was fined $6.79 million and placed on probation for three years.