Cadbury Schweppes fined $2 million for food scare

BIRMINGHAM, England—A judge at Birmingham Crown Court fined confectionary group Cadbury Schweppes P.L.C. £1 million ($2.04 million) for selling chocolate infected with salmonella in the United Kingdom and Ireland last year.

The judge Monday ordered Cadbury Schweppes to pay £152,000 ($309, 720) in costs.

The company in June recalled more than one million chocolate bars in the U.K. and Irish market.

Forty-two people fell ill after the salmonella outbreak.