Tyson settles consumer class action for $5 million 

Posted: 5:02 pm Wed, January 13, 2010
By Brendan Kearney

Chicken-processing giant Tyson Foods Inc. has settled a consumer class action brought over its controversial “Raised Without Antibiotics” advertising campaign. Under the agreement filed Tuesday night in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, individual consumers will receive as much as $50 each. The cost to Tyson is $5 million, with $600,000 of that amount set aside to ...