Did Peanut Production Plant Know About the Salmonella?

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Did Peanut Production Plant Know About the Salmonella?

by Shawn Schuster (Subscribe to Shawn Schuster's posts)
Jan 28th 2009 @ 12:02PM

Filed under: Food, Health

Last week's news of another salmonella outbreak in peanut products has us all on edge a bit about the popular food, but now we get word that inspectors actually knew about the contamination beforehand. According to a report in the Washington Post, the Georgia plant from which the contaminated peanut butter originated has knowingly shipped tainted product 12 times in the last two years.

How can something like this happen? It's obviously not carelessness, since the Peanut Corporation of America tests their products before they're distributed, but the kicker here is the fact that they aren't mandated to share those test results with state or federal regulators. I smell a costly cover-up.

[Via SuperEco]

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