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Company: Smithfield Foods
Current Parent Company: WH Group
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Penalty: $65,000,000
Year: 2000
Date: July 25, 2000
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: Smithfield agreed to provide $65 million over a 25-year period to help develop alternatives to hog waste lagoons.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: North Carolina Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: North Carolina
HQ Country of Current Parent: China
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: privately held
Major Industry of Current Parent: food products
Specific Industry of Current Parent: meatpacking
Source of Data: Smithfield Foods agrees to phase out lagoons, Associated Press, July 25, 2000 (via Nexis).
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.