News tagged with 'Peanut Butter Recall'

Both the state of Georiga and the Department of Justice are looking at filing criminal charges against  Peanut Corporation of America. An inspection report should have raised a red flag that the company had extensive salmonella contamination that was not contained. 

The Associated Press reports in an exclusive, that a shipment of peanuts from the Peanut Corporation of America plant in Georgia went to Canada last spring and was found to contain a “filthy, putrid or decomposed substance,” later determined to be metal fragments. The plant is at the center of a nationwide recall of peanut products.  The FDA never inspected the rejected shipment.

The recall of the Peanut Corporation of America products has now been expanded to include ALL products produced at the plant dating back to Jan. 1, 2007. The FDA has released a detailed inspection report of the facility which found mold, roaches and other unsanitary conditions.

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Peanut Butter Recall Update Updated 2007- The latest report on the peanut butter/salmonella ordeal, which was published in a June 1 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) , reported that 628 people from 47 states fell ill due to a stain of salmonella called Salmonella serotype Tennessee that w

Many lawsuits have been filed after people became ill from eating salmonella contaminated peanut butter. There have been over 600 known cases of illness in 47 different states from the Peter Pan brand peanut butter. The peanut butter was voluntarily recalled by ConAgra Foods , the makers of Peter Pan, on