Family Dollar has pleaded guilty to operating a warehouse infested with rodents and has been fined nearly $42 million, the biggest criminal penalty in a food safety case, the Department of Justice said Monday.
More than 1,200 rodents were exterminated once the warehouse was fumigated, following an inspection by the Food and Drug Administration in January 2022, in which it found rodents both dead and alive, and rodent feces and urine.
