A woman executive and two other cheese businesses that her family runs in Pennsylvania will plead guilty this Friday for the Misbranding and Mislabeling grated Swiss and Mozzarella as parmesan and Romano. It also contained more percentage of wood pulp than allowed.
As per the food and drug administration, the reported cheese is produced at the castle cheese owned by the family. According to the reports from the Bloomberg News the produced cheese were sold in the target stores and local stores in the name Market Pantry, Always Save and Best Choice.
In addition, the mislabeled product sold contained more than 4% cellulose in the cheese which is higher than the amount allowed by the FDA.
Mitchell Myrter, the woman executive associated the case will receive a probation instead of the one year imprisonment which can be given as the maximum punishment for the charge said the attorney of the executive.
Apart from that Myrter's slippery rock companies, International packing and universal Cheese drying and packing will be paying a penalty of $500,000 each.
Lauren Sucher, an FDA representative intimated through an e-mail to "The Associated Press" that where the reported goods are sold are still unknown.
Sucher in a statement said "Consumers have a right to expect that products they purchase are what they purport to be." Sucher further added, according to ABC News, "In this case, products that were labeled as containing 100 percent parmesan or 100 percent Romano cheese contained no parmesan or Romano cheese."
The Woman executive, Myrter, who is vice president of castle and also an officer in other companies pleaded guilty for trying to introduce the adulterated and misbranded products in to the market. The associated companies of the family pleaded guilty for the same and also money laundering.
Myrtle will appear before the federal judge on Friday morning in Pittsburgh to plead guilty for the above said issue and on behalf of the companies run by her family.
