A former executive will spend three years on probation and pay a $5,000 fine because two Slippery Rock cheese businesses her family controlled sold products that were mislabeled and misrepresented.
A federal judge in Pittsburgh sentenced 44-year-old Michelle Myrter of Harmony on Tuesday.
The now defunct Castle Cheese sold grated Swiss and mozzarella cheeses as Parmesan and Romano cheese. The companies International Packing and Universal Cheese and Drying would package and mislabel the cheese.
The FDA said the imitation cheeses were safe to eat but customers were being cheated by paying for more expensive Italian cheese while getting cheaper varieties.
The FDA also had questions about whether the cheeses had too much cellulose- a filler made from wood pulp- but that claim wasn’t included in this criminal case.
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