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Young Living Essential Oils pleads guilty to trafficking oils
« on: September 25, 2017, 07:59:42 pm »
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Young Living Essential Oils pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to the illegal trafficking of oils from endangered plants. The company is ordered to $760,000 in fines.

According to the plea agreement, from June 2010 to October 2014, several company employees and contractors harvested, transported, and distilled rosewood (Aniba roseaodora or Brazilian rosewood) in Peru and imported some of the resulting oil into the United States, through Ecuador.  Neither the company nor its suppliers, employees, or agents had any valid authorization from the Peruvian government......

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