FDA: Company Knowingly Shipped Tainted Goods

Recall Fda Federal health officials say the Georgia
peanut plant at the center of the salmonella outbreak knowingly
shipped tainted products.

by Associated Press

Published: Fri, February 06, 2009 - 4:06 pm CST Last Updated: Fri, February 06, 2009 - 4:08 pm CST

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal health officials say the Georgia
peanut plant at the center of the salmonella outbreak knowingly
shipped tainted products.
Previously, the Food and Drug Administration had said Peanut
Corp. of America retested products after getting an initial
positive result for salmonella. The agency said the company shipped
the goods after follow-up tests came back negative.
But Friday, the FDA said the company sent out peanut butter,
chopped peanuts and peanut meal that had tested positive even
before it got back any negative findings.
Peanut Corp. denies any wrongdoing. The government has opened a
criminal investigation.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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cork Says:

Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:19 am

The company may have shipped the peanut butter but where did the contamination come from? That is the question….The FDA is trying to put the blame somewhere else other than investigating the peanut fields. I bet they will find raw sewage that was emptied as fertilizer from nearby sewage treatment plants and was not fermented on the ground long enough. This is the way they are getting rid of the waste after it’s supposedly treated. There is more containment in sewage water that their processing plants can get rid of. Start from the beginning when the peanuts are planted. Ask the farmer in Georgia who did strait injection on his hay fields and when he fed his cows he lost over 200 head. Someone needs to investigate this? Someone needs to investigate the tomatos and also the spinach and I bet there is more sickness out there than what is being reported.