Feds charge Woodville warehouse

A Woodville distributing operation and two Minnesota Men have been charged with introducing adulterated food into interstate commerce by federal prosecutors.

Woodville Warehousing and Distributing, LLC, Mark Anderson, 37, Long Lake, Minn., and Steven Perkins, 48, Spicer, Minn., were indicted by a federal grand jury in Madison March 26, U.S. Attorney Eric C. Peterson said.

Woodville Warehousing and Distributing was charged with one misdemeanor count of causing butter it held from May 2 – May 20, 2003 to become adulterated.

The business faces a maximum penalty of a $200,000 fine.

Anderson and Perkins were charged with four felony counts shipping butter between states that was prepared, packed and held under unsanitary conditions.

The two operated as dairy traders in Minnetonka, Minn., and allegedly were involved with shipping adulterated butter from Iowa to Wisconsin on May 2, 2003 and from Wisconsin to Minnesota on May 5, 7 and 14, 2003.

Anderson and Perkins face a maximum penalty of three years in prison for each of the four felony counts if convicted.

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