Chocolate-maker Cadbury Ltd was fined £1m by a judge at Birmingham Crown Court today following an outbreak of salmonella in the UK last summer.
The company has already pleaded guilty after being prosecuted by both Birmingham City Council and a council in Herefordshire.
In June 2006, Cadbury admitted to the salmonella problem at one of its UK plants, and recalled more than a million chocolate bars in the UK and Irish markets, costing £30m, as they could contain minute traces of salmonella.
