guess what...
PCA continued to sell their tainted product even after they knew it tested positive for salmonella.
Operators of the Georgia peanut-processing plant at the center of a nationwide salmonella outbreak knew of bacteria at the facility as early as 2007, but continued to ship their peanut butter and paste to dozens of companies, federal health officials said yesterday.
nice.
UPDATE: In Breaking news the peanut recall is expanded. Sure to be largest in USA history.
Every peanut and every ounce of peanut butter and paste shipped from a Georgia processing plant over the past two years were recalled Wednesday in an expanded response to the nationwide salmonella outbreak that has made 500 people sick.
Federal officials said the recall is likely to be among the largest in U.S. history, but had no idea how much food will be involved.
The announcement came hours after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a report that said Peanut Corp. of America, owner of the plant, sold peanuts and peanut butter and paste that initially tested positive for salmonella on 12 occasions in 2007 and 2008.By DAVID SHAFFER, Star Tribune
