Insanitary Storage Of FDA-Regulated Products Costs Family Dollar Nearly 42 Million Dollars

Nearly 1,300 rodents exterminated at Arkansas warehouse after FDA investigation found lack of climate control in store of food and OTC drugs requiring dry, room-temperature conditions. Firm pleads guilty in largest monetary criminal penalty in US food safety case.

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A Food and Drug Administration inspection of a Dollar Tree Inc. subsidiary’s warehouse in Arkansas led to the extermination of nearly 1,300 rodents there and charges costing the firm a lot of dollars, the largest monetary criminal penalty in a US food safety case.

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