Peanut Butter Problem

You all probably heard about the salmonella outbreak in peanut butter by now, but some people still don't know how and why it happened. The maker of peanut butter was the cause of a nationwide outbreak of salmonella that it knew had tested positive for the bacteria. It is reported that the Peanut Corporation of America's (PCA) own testing program found strains of salmonella 12 times in 2007 and 2008 at its Blakely, Georgia, plant. FDA inspectors that visited the plant this month, still found more salmonella contamination. Its own testing found salmonella in peanut paste, peanut butter, peanut meal, peanut granules and oil-roasted, salted peanuts. But all they did was retest until the test results became negative instead of solving the problem. They tried to find a way to clear there product so they could ship it.
When the proper thing to do is to believe the test that said the containment was positive and that lot should be destroyed. Well here is a case of stingyness that led to hundreds of people being sick and other dying.


Falco, Miriam (Wed January 28, 2009). FDA: Peanut plant knew product was tainted with salmonella. Retrieved January 31, 2009, from cnnhealth.com Web site: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/28/salmonella.outbreak/index.html?iref=newssearch