Chipotle Case Summary

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The Article explains the situation that happened to Chipotle in which a criminal subpoena was happening to deem if the company was going to be held responsible for the multiple outbreaks of norovirus and E. coli in some of their chain restaurants. It then goes on to talk about how Stewart Parnell the former owner of Peanut Corp. shipped peanut butter even though it had been contaminated with salmonella and he tried to hide the evidence. He was sentenced to 28 years in prison for this crime. After that the article goes to list on the locations of the outbreaks and how it’s affected the stocks and sales of food. The article ends with a paraphrase from the executive director of the Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy at UCLA saying that historically restaurants like Jack in the Box and Taco Bell have been able to bounce sales back after a period of time ranging from a quarter year to a few years
I would say this connects to modern government and what we have been learning because government agencies are involved. We just learned about a few of the many departments in the government. The FDA is heavily involved because it pertains to the F in FDA which is food obviously. The judicial branch is also involved because the U.S. Attorney’s office is the one bringing the charges to the company after
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But it seems they have more problems on their hand with E. Coli in other chains as well. Now I don’t think that anyone at corporate should be sentenced to prison time but I do think that the company should be fined for not keeping track of the quality of their food at all their locations. Now I get that’s a hard task but when things like this can damage a company badly it would seem that they would take more care into things like this. But from what I have read I don’t think anyone should specifically be sentenced to jail