ADM inflated its Nutrition segment's profit for three years to hit forecasts
Employees were pressured to shift profit from other segments into Nutrition using fake rebates and price changes targeted to exact dollar amounts.
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UK ingredient supplier FGS Ingredients had to recall more than 45 mustard-containing products after peanut contamination spread across its retail customers.
Lire le casThe East India Company built a 2,500-mile hedge — to stop the wrong smugglers
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