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Article: Grand jury indicts two fruit juice manufacturers.
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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As the result of an intensive investigation by FDA's Detroit district office, a federal grand jury, on Feb. 18, returned a 33-count indictment against two fruit juice manufacturers and seven individuals. The indictment charges that the defendants defrauded the public by replacing orange juice with low-cost, inferior ingredients in their orange juice products.
The indictment alleges that between 1979 and 1991, Peninsular Products Company of Lansing, Mich., and Flavor Fresh Foods Corporation of Chicago used beet sugar, citric acid, amino acids, and orange pulp wash in foods they falsely labeled and sold as orange juice from concentrate and concentrated orange juice ...