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Two Men, Business Sentenced for Causing Meat to Become Tainted Mar 26, 2004 By Cheryl Wittenauer Associated Press Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) - A food retailer, its owner and a manager were sentenced Friday on charges that they caused meat in their store to become tainted with rodent feces, mold and other contaminants. P&S Foods, of suburban St. Louis, was placed on three years of probation and ordered to pay a $95,000 fine after pleading guilty last December to two counts of causing federally inspected meat to become adulterated, U.S. Attorney Ray Gruender said. From 1999 through last year, federal...