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Peanut plant knew product was tainted
FDA says company knew product was contaminated
Updated: Wednesday, 28 Jan 2009, 11:41 PM EST
Published : Wednesday, 28 Jan 2009, 10:39 PM EST
(WWLP) - Major news in the deadly salmonella outbreak involving a south
georgia peanut processing plant.
Georgia agriculture officials dropped a bombshell this
morning when they were grilled by state lawmakers at the capitol.
The FDA revealed that officials with the Peanut Corporation
of America in Blakely, Georgia knew they had products contaminated
with salmonella and yet shipped them out to consumers anyway.
On 12 separate occasions during the past two years testing
done by the company found salmonella in their peanut products but
instead of pulling the products the company had them retested by an
outside lab and those tests came back negative.
"I'm angry about the company hiding these results we do what
we can during our food safety inspections out there with the staff
that we've got, 60 employees for 16-thousand facilities across the
state and then you have a company that actually knows that they
have a problem and doesn't make us aware of it," said Oscar
Garrison, Georgia Deputy Agriculture Commissioner.
The FDA has expanded its recall to all peanut products
containing peanut paste or peanut oil from the peanut company.
See a list of recalled products
This Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 file photo, shows the Peanut Corp. of America plant in Blakely, Ga. Peanut Corp. of America president Stewart Parnell said through an external public relations firm that a majority of the plant's employees had …
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