Cadbury fined £1m over salmonella outbreak

Chocolate-maker Cadbury was fined £1m (€1.47m) today following a national salmonella outbreak which left three victims in hospital.

The Birmingham-based confectioner, which pleaded guilty to nine food safety offences at earlier hearings, was also ordered to pay costs of more than £152,000 (€224,755) by a judge at the city’s Crown Court.