School Lunch Program Supplier Sold Juice With High Arsenic Levels, U.S. Says in Lawsuit
A supplier that provided three million servings of apple juice a year to a federal school lunch program sold juice with high levels of arsenic and used rotted fruit that contained toxins, the Food and Drug Administration said in a lawsuit that it filed recently against the company.
In the lawsuit, which was filed on Nov. 6 in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Washington, lawyers for the government wrote that the juice supplier, Valley Processing of Sunnyside, Wash., had been cited for food safety violations on numerous occasions as far back as 2016 and had promised to take corrective action, but never did.
“Defendants have an extensive history of processing juice under grossly insanitary conditions,” the lawsuit said.
Valley Processing would be forced to suspend its operations, destroy its remaining inventory and adopt a sanitary control program developed by an independent expert before it could reopen under a consent decree proposed by the federal government.
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