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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that have been recalled in the nationwide salmonella outbreak, which has made at least 600 people ill and is tied to nine deaths, the Associated Press reports. With the poor economy and millions of families depending on food pantries for help, it’s a particularly bad time to have to toss thousands of pounds of food. The Houston Food Bank, for example, has already thrown out 3,000 recalled peanut products, and the Cleveland Food Clinic has discarded Read the rest of this entry »

that have been recalled in the nationwide salmonella outbreak, which has made at least 600 people ill and is tied to nine deaths, the Associated Press reports. With the poor economy and millions of families depending on food pantries for help, it’s a particularly bad time to have to toss thousands of pounds of food. The Houston Food Bank, for example, has already thrown out 3,000 recalled peanut products, and the Cleveland Food Clinic has discarded Read the rest of this entry »

“We need new laboratory tools, new information tools, computer assisted telephones to bring information together in real-time,” said Rear Admiral Ali S. Khan, assistant surgeon general, told the Senate Agriculture committee this morning. “We need better investment on the state and local level to make diagnoses more quickly . . . There are a number of opportunities to shorten this time line and have cases identified quicker.”
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Officials from the Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture issued a product warning after preliminary laboratory testing indicated the presence of salmonella in a 5-pound container of King Nut brand creamy peanut butter, according to published reports. The product is distributed in Minnesota to long-term care facilities, hospitals, schools, universities, restaurants, delis, cafeterias and bakeries, but is not sold Read the rest of this entry »

Salmonella Outbreak Sickens 388 People in 42 States, CDC Says
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — Food tainted with the bacteria
has caused an outbreak of food poisoning, making 388
people sick and sending about 70 of them to the hospital, U.S.
health officials reported.
The outbreak has affected people in 42 states, said David
Daigle, a spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention in Atlanta, in a telephone interview today. The agency
is Read the rest of this entry »

Peanut butter and peanut paste manufactured by the Peanut Corp. of America (PCA) has been tied to the salmonella outbreak that has sickened 501 people in 43 states and is believed to have contributed to eight deaths.
The Food and Drug Administration said that its inspection of the PCA plant in Blakely, Ga., found records of 12 instances in which plant officials identified salmonella in ingredients or finished products. The products should not have Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

A timeline of important events in the salmonella outbreak linked to tainted peanuts at a Blakely, Ga., plant.
_2006 — Four inspections by the Georgia Department of Agriculture cite numerous, repeated violations at the Blakely, Ga., plant of the Peanut Corp. of America, a peanut processing company and maker of peanut butter for bulk distribution to institutions, food service industries, and private label food companies. The violations include Read the rest of this entry »

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