4. ConAgra agrees to pay $11.2 million in Peter Pan case

ConAgra Foods, Inc. in May agreed to pay $11,211,000 to resolve a case involving a Salmonella outbreak in Peter Pan peanut butter that had happened more than eight years before. The Omaha-based company pled guilty to one count of introducing adulterated food into interstate commerce, a strict liability misdemeanor, according to a May 20 court filing in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, Albany Division. Read the full story.