Dive Summary:

• The U.S. Marshal Service seized thousands of pounds of Kosher food products at a V.I.P. Foods warehouse in Ridgewood, N.Y. as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York seeks to condemn $1 million worth of food. 
• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned V.I.P. Foods about unsanitary conditions, including live rodents in food packaging, back in November.
• The company then claimed it had cleaned up its act but an FDA follow-up inspection in February revealed "rodent nests within pallets of packaging materials" and the presence of rodent feces, live rodents and dead rodents in the warehouse.

From the article:

"... V.I.P. Foods produces dry food mixes for products like muffins, cakes, pudding and hot chocolate, which are used by catering, restaurant and institutional food-service companies, according to the V.I.P. Foods website. The company also distributes products to supermarkets under the Kojel brand name and produces products for customers to put their own brand name on.

'V.I.P's warehouse was a picnic ground for rodents, and the company failed utterly in its obligation to provide food deemed safe for human consumption,' Loretta E. Lynch, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement. ..."