Dive Brief:
- Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has filed a six-count lawsuit against Tyson Foods in connection with an industrial accident last month.
- Koster is seeking compensation for expenses the state incurred investigating and then cleaning up after a spill of Alimet crippled a town's waste-water treatment plant and killed 100,000 fish.
- Tyson has acknowledged its role in the disaster and apologized to local residents.
Dive Insight:
Koster is seeking a fair amount of money from Tyson -- $10,000 a day for every day the state's water laws were violated and another $10,000 a day for every day that Missouri's hazardous waste laws were broken.
Combined with the effects of the public-relations disaster of videos showing thousands of dead, rotting fish along the waterway -- this suit might prompt Tyson to make some changes to its processes.
