Thursday, February 6, 2025

House of Raeford faces new water pollution charges

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McClatchy Newspapers

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Federal authorities are reviving an environmental crimes case against House of Raeford Farms, a North Carolina-based poultry processor accused of flushing turkey remains into a municipal sewage treatment plant.

Earlier this year, a federal judge dismissed the case because prosecutors failed to bring it to a speedy trial. But the judge allowed prosecutors to resurrect the case.

In a new indictment filed on June 26, a grand jury again charged that the North Carolina-based company sent untreated wastewater — contaminated with blood and body parts from slaughtered turkeys — to a municipal treatment. . .

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