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
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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 »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The sole source of the U.S. salmonella outbreak involving contaminated peanut butter appears to be the Peanut Corp of America’s Blakely, Georgia processing facility, federal officials said on Wednesday.
More than 125 products including cookies, crackers, ice cream and even some pet food have been recalled in connection with the outbreak, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
Six deaths may be associated with the outbreak, Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The sole source of the U.S. salmonella outbreak involving contaminated peanut butter appears to be the Peanut Corp of America’s Blakely, Georgia processing facility, federal officials said on Wednesday.
More than 125 products including cookies, crackers, ice cream and even some pet food have been recalled in connection with the outbreak, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
Six deaths may be associated with the 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 »

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 »

Tuesday, February 03, 2009
WASHINGTON —  The Associated Press has learned a processing plant in Texas run by the same company blamed for a national salmonella outbreak operated uninspected and unlicensed for years.
Texas health records show the Peanut Corporation of America plant in Plainview had never been inspected until after the company recently fell under investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
FDA inspectors went Read the rest of this entry »

Six people are hurt after an explosion and fire at the We Energies power plant along Lake Michigan in Oak Creek.
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OAK CREEK – Six people are hurt after an explosion and fire at the We Energies power plant along Lake Michigan in Oak Creek.
The explosion happened at a part of the plant that collects dust from coal after it is Read the rest of this entry »

DALLAS
— Texas health officials confirm salmonella was found in peanut meal at a Texas plant owned by the company at the center of the national salmonella outbreak.
Doug McBride, a spokesman for the Texas Department of State Health Services, said Wednesday that the salmonella found in a sample taken from the Peanut Corp. of America’s Plainview plant Feb. 12 is the same strain as the nationwide outbreak.
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By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) – A peanut plant in Georgia
identified as the source of an outbreak of salmonella shipped
out products that managers knew might be tainted, U.S. Food and
Drug Administration officials said on Tuesday.
An FDA inspection of the Peanut Corporation of America
plant in Blakely, Georgia, also found at least two strains of
salmonella bacteria at the plant, although they were strains
that Read the rest of this entry »