ohn and Mary own a corporation, EGGS R US, which operates a chicken farm with 1000 chickens laying 20,000 eggs daily that are sold in the market. They have 100 employees. 5000 of the eggs sold one day had salmonella and 500 people became very sick from eating the eggs. Turns out the eggs were tainted. The Food and Drug Act makes companies and responsible individuals selling adulterated food strictly liable for selling adulterated foods. Investigators learned one of the chicken coops was not being properly cleaned by some employees.
John and Mary were vacationing all of last year in Southern France and were unaware of the problem but were charged with a crime of selling adulterated foods as was the company. Is it guilty? What if an employee had sent a note telling them that some of the employees were not doing their job very well. Is that criminal? Are John and Mary innocent?
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