SA smallgoods maker Conroy's breached food standards eight times in three months, court told Conroy's Smallgoods owners Pat and Andrew Conroy. SMALLGOODS maker Conroy's and its two directors face a maximum $200,000 fine over allegations they breached the state's food safety code eight times in three months. Lawyers for the company and its directors, Peter Andrew Conroy and Patrick Kelly Conroy, appeared on their behalf in the Adelaide Magistrates Court today. The company has yet to enter pleas to eight counts of breaching a condition of its accreditation under the Primary Produce (Food Safety Schemes) Act (2004). Peter and Patrick Conroy have each been charged with one count of the same offence. Court documents allege Conroy's was in breach of its accreditation once on July 12 last year, twice on August 13, and once on August 24 and August 27. The company was allegedly in breach again on September 19, October 3 and October 5. Peter and Patrick Conroy have been charged with being in breach between July 12 and October 5, 2012. The brothers did not attend court today, and their lawyers asked the matter be referred to a pre-trial conference. Deputy Chief Magistrate Dr Andrew Cannon agreed, adjourning the case until next month. In December 2005, Conroys goods were taken off store shelves due to a listeria outbreak. Royal Adelaide Hospital patient Richard Formosa died as a result of eating infected Conroy's products - seven years later, his family received $200,000 compensation. Listeria was detected at Conroy's again in August 2006. Prosecutors later would tell a court the company had ignored the "fundamental rules" of the meat industry by packing raw and cooked meat in the same room. Conroy's was fined $8000 for that offence, which the company's lawyer dubbed "a once-off." In June this year, the company was fined $8000 after pleading guilty to four breaches of hygiene standards. They included storing meat in a grease-contaminated chill room, having a soiled pallet in a meat storage area and having inappropriate facilities for employees to wash their hands. The breaches were detected during a random audit by Primary Industries and Resources SA in February 2012.