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Tyson's poultry unit fined $2M for Clean Water Act violation

The U.S. Department of Justice on Feb. 27 said it fined Tyson Poultry Inc., the poultry unit of Tyson Foods Inc., $2 million for violation of Clean Water Act in Missouri in 2014.

The poultry unit will also serve two years of probation and pay $500,000 to directly remedy the harm caused by the incident, according to a release from the Justice Department.

In May 2014, the Justice Department said in a statement that Tyson Poultry discarded a substance called "Alimet," used for its chicken feed, in the sewers of its plant in Monett, Miss. The substance flowed through the municipality's sewage system to its treatment plant where it killed the bacteria used to reduce the ammonia discharge from the sewage facility. As a result, more ammonia was discharged from the plant into Clear Creek, resulting in the death of approximately 108,000 fish.

Tyson Poultry, under the terms of the plea agreement, agreed to appoint an independent third-party auditor to review environmental compliance at the company's poultry facilities across the country; conduct specialized environmental training at all of its poultry processing plants, hatcheries, feed mills, rendering plants and wastewater treatment plants; and implement improved policies and procedures to address the circumstances that gave rise to these violations.