Chief executive fined $5,000 over fake cheese

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Big cheese fined over fake parmesan

The chief executive of a US cheese company has been fined $5,000 (£4,000) and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service after it was discovered his company had been doctoring its parmesan with ingredients such as wood pulp. Michelle Myrter, 44, of Castle Cheese Inc in Pennsylvania, admitted in court that her company and two others controlled by her family had made and distributed hundreds of thousands of pounds of the fake cheese between 2010 and 2013.

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Wedding delayed after mother gets lost

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