nytimes.com — Robert Watson, a top ingredient buyer for Kraft Foods, needed $20,000 to pay his taxes. So he called a broker for a California tomato processor that for years had been paying him bribes to get its products into Kraft’s plants. Prosecutors say SK Foods not only paid off buyers in exchange for contracts but also hid problems like mold.
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rignopolisFeb 26, 2010
May be the guy taking the bribe paid off the guy in the lab.
bjornskiFeb 27, 2010
Well, if there were fewer regulations, these tomatoes would have gone right into the food chain, and no bribes would have had to have been paid!No law to break = no crime committed!It's a win/win situation!
bjornskiFeb 27, 2010
What is this? Logic? On my Digg?
bjornskiFeb 27, 2010
@rignopolisWhen you've been poisoned, the sense of humor is the first thing to go./NOT a jab at mrzack7. I'm on his side here...
admiral202Feb 27, 2010
Philip Morris (Altria Group) no longer owns Kraft Foods (since March 2007). If you keep up with the news, Kraft has since cleaned house by bringing in a new management team (Irene), and significantly changed the way they do business.<a class="user" href="http://www.altria.com/investors/2_2_2_kraftspinoff.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.altria.com/investors/2_2_2_kraftspinoff ...</a>
admiral202Feb 27, 2010
"Mr. Carr does not have a sentimental view of the company where he was a director for nine years and chairman for the past two. "The popular myth of Cadbury among the public was an old-fashioned family business run by chocolatiers with Quaker principles—a great British business with its roots in Bournville and its heritage in Victorian England," he says. "It was an Enid Blyton image that the media readily portrayed and which coloured much of the general public's reaction when the company was finally sold." <a class="user" href="http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/feb2010/gb20100218_694691.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/feb2 ...</a>Don't believe everything you read, hear, or see in the media. Cadbury is just as big of a conglomerate as Kraft with very similar cultures. The "family values" violin gets played a lot in these companies by the media, but for the most part, they change so frequently, it's really not that way anymore. I think that's probably true for many large companies.
admiral202Feb 27, 2010
Food companies are regulated by both depending on the products. Kraft, Sara Lee, and others have plants that make beverages (FDA) and meat (USDA). It just depends on the products.
admiral202Feb 27, 2010
I like Oreos.
preythesonFeb 27, 2010
Okay, I'll give you that, because I do too.