The Vacaville Reporter reports that a sausage maker was sentenced to probation and fined $50,000 for misdemeanor counts of mislabeling chicken sausage that had too much fat in it. According to the prosecutor,
the firm, which produces Le Pique-Nique Chicken Linguisa with garlic and white wine, and Le Pique-Nique Lemon Chicken Sausage, added chicken skin to its sausage formula from 2002 to 2005.
That increased the amount of fat in the products but Engelhart never retested nor relabeled the newly formulated, higher fat sausage products, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
No, I didn't make this one up.