Jim “the Hammer” Adler is fed up with food poisoning. Even if the peanut butter salmonella outbreak doesn’t hit us all, it could kill all of our appetites. The latest queasy quotient comes from news that Peanut Corporation of America — a name which could forever live in infamy — also has had its Plainview plant in West Texas shut down after dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers were found there.

Now, mixing jelly with peanut butter is one thing, but dead rodents is a bit too adventurous for most tastes — and unhealthy enough to prompt a recall of all existing products ever shipped from the Plainview plant. PCA’s now-shuttered Blakely, Ga. plant already has been branded with that distinction.

All of this makes you wonder if America’s food supply isn’t an accident waiting to happen, and if the Food and Drug Administration performs too much as a reactionary agency, rather than a preventative one.

Actually, it was the Texas Department of State Health Services which ordered the Plainview plant’s recall, and it was PCA itself which voluntarily ordered it to be shut down. It’s still uncertain if the Plainview plant has contributed to the current nationwide salmonella outbreak, though its unhealthy conditions and ownership by PCA certainly merit such scrutiny.

Tests are underway to determine if Plainview product does, in fact, harbor salmonella, the nasty bacterium which invades digestive systems and which reportedly has killed up to nine people in America via tainted peanut products, with many thousands sickened.

The Texas peanut plant did not sell peanut butter or peanut paste directly to consumers, but rather to individual businesses which used the food substances in their own products, such as packaged crackers including peanut butter. The current outbreak has led to the largest recall of products in American history and is costing the food industry many millions of dollars.

Perhaps it’s already cost you, too, in terms of a case of salmonella food poisoning. If so, alert a peanut butter salmonella food poisoning lawyer or attorney with Jim S. Adler & Associates to explore you legal rights. Call toll-free to 800-505-1414 or submit the free case review form on this page and protect yourself and your family from any losses you’ve suffered due to tainted peanut products.

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