Editor’s note: This story was revised shortly after publication to include comments from an official of Vitamin Cottage Natural Foods, the firm that sold the peanut butter in which Salmonella was found.
Feb 17, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) offered additional evidence today that the Peanut Corp of America (PCA) plant in Blakely, Ga., may not be the only PCA facility that has contributed to the nationwide
outbreak Read the rest of this entry »

A manager at the Peanut Corp. of America’s plant in Plainview, Texas, said he repeatedly complained to the company owner,
, and the Texas Department of Health about unsanitary conditions at the plant.
Kenneth Kendrick said in an exclusive interview today with “Good Morning America” that when he worked at the Texas plant in 2006, he told Parnell about a rodent infestation and a leaky roof.
“Water, particularly anything leaking off a roof, and Read the rest of this entry »

The FDA did not formally announce the new findings about the company’s testing, but rather made small revisions to an online report about the investigation on Thursday. Only when a Washington Post reporter discovered the changes did the news become more widely known.
As part of the investigation, the FDA found that 12 contaminated lots from the small Blakely, Ga., plant were shipped to schools in California, Minnesota and Iowa from January 2007 Read the rest of this entry »

Tuesday, 20 January 2009 12:36
Guam – The Guam Department of Public Health says there is a voluntary recall for some food items that come from the Peanut Corporation of America. No mandatory recall is in effect for any peanut butter products on Guam.
On the US mainland a salmonella outbreak has claimed 6 lives and sickened hundreds of others in 43 states. Tainted peanut butter products are blamed.
The FDA and other regulatory agencies have indicated Read the rest of this entry »

There was no statement available from the company and the company’s bankruptcy attorney, Andy Goldstein, could not be reached for comment.
So far, 654 people in 44 states have been officially recorded as sickened with salmonella traced to the Georgia plant contamination, which is also linked to nine deaths. Separately,
health authorities have linked at least nine cases of salmonella poisoning to the Texas plant.
One food manufacturer affected Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — The Peanut Corporation of America closed its processing plant in Plainview, Tex., on Monday night after a laboratory test indicated possible
contamination, a development that threatens to widen one of the largest food recalls ever and raises more questions about why the government allowed the plant to operate.
The company’s plant in Blakely, Ga., was identified a month ago as the source of a nationwide salmonella outbreak. Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — The Peanut Corporation of America closed its processing plant in Plainview, Tex., on Monday night after a laboratory test indicated possible
contamination, a development that threatens to widen one of the largest food recalls ever and raises more questions about why the government allowed the plant to operate.
The company’s plant in Blakely, Ga., was identified a month ago as the source of a nationwide salmonella outbreak. Read the rest of this entry »

LYNCHBURG, Va. – The family in charge of the company that shipped salmonella-contaminated peanut products blamed for sickening hundreds of people claims that reports of filthy condition at the company’s shuttered Georgia plant are “exaggerated” and insists that the company broke no laws.
The Food and Drug Administration alleges that Peanut Corp. of America knowingly distributed peanut products from its plant in Blakely, Ga., that had tested Read the rest of this entry »

There was no statement available from the company and the company’s bankruptcy attorney, Andy Goldstein, could not be reached for comment.
So far, 654 people in 44 states have been officially recorded as sickened with salmonella traced to the Georgia plant contamination, which is also linked to nine deaths. Separately,
health authorities have linked at least nine cases of salmonella poisoning to the Texas plant.
One food manufacturer affected Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department on Thursday banned the company implicated in the nationwide contamination of peanut products from doing business with the federal government. At least eight people have died and hundreds have been sickened after eating tainted products.
The order, which affects the Peanut Corporation of America and a subsidiary, will remain in force for one year. Agriculture Secretary
also stripped the company’s Read the rest of this entry »