"The argument that the execs must be the one to choose the foam to be liable is a bit silly. While in some white collar crimes, you will find individual actions

"The argument that the execs must be the one to choose the foam to be liable is a bit silly. While in some white collar crimes, you will find individual actions by execs, such as in banking and tobacco, that's rarely the case." Sure. Generally criminal liability (in the US) requires a "guilty mind". That is, you have to have the intention/knowledge of wrongdoing for it to be criminal, regardless of the acts. This isn't always true (there are strict liability crimes, etc), but it's mostly true. What you are suggesting would not really be in line with that, at least in the US. Now, we could as a society decide we have a big enough problem that we want more strict liablity crimes for execs. I don' feel like i have a good enough understanding of the practical tradeoffs/data to have a strong opinion there yet.