CBC: California resident and former Driscoll’s employee David Harada claims in the lawsuit that by Driscoll’s own estimates, about 50 per cent of all shipments to Canada from 2022 to 2024 had fruit that exceeded Canadian safety levels.
“And it’s something where you start seeing it so regularly and you know that something’s not right that you have to speak up,” Harada said in an interview with CBC News.
Harada was Driscoll’s manager of food safety and regulatory compliance for the U.S. and Canada. He filed a lawsuit for unlawful retaliation against Driscoll’s. In the lawsuit’s filing, Harada said he felt that he was being set up to be the “scapegoat” for compliance issues and that he was being retaliated against for speaking up…