| Feb 13 |
Texas peanut plant joins salmonella food poisoning probe
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. |
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.
| Feb 11 |
Salmonella food poisoning outbreak is costing America more than peanuts
Peanut Corp. reportedly found salmonella in its own testing, then “lab shopped” to try to find a lab which would provide a favorable report. Meanwhile, it shipped tainted peanut products to consumers in various states. Many persons have been stricken with salmonella in Minnesota, California, Michigan, Ohio, Massachusetts and Virginia. Still more cases have arisen in Florida, Arizona, North Dakota, Texas, Idaho and New Hampshire. |
The latest atrocities reported from the front lines of America’s salmonella food poisoning battle indicate that the responsible company, Peanut Corporation of America, shipped products to consumers even prior to learning results of lab tests which would reveal salmonella.| Feb 11 |
What’s wrong with the stimulus bill? It doesn’t protect peanuts!
Peanuts are under assault by manufacturers who have no respect for America’s favorite comfort food or the well being of their fellow Americans. When the FBI starts raiding peanut plants for salmonella food poisoning you know the situation is out of control at a time when peanut products need more protection than ever given the state of the economy. In some respects, Africa is better off than we are when it comes to peanuts. What does Africa have to do with it? Read on. But first, a reprise of American values. |
If the economy gets any worse, we’ll all be eating peanuts. They’re cheap and nutritious. But these days, they can be deadly.| Feb 04 |
Rats, roaches taint peanuts in salmonella food poisoning scare
CBS News helped answer the first with a report today from the now-closed Blakely, Ga. plant of Peanut Corporation of America, believed to be the source of a salmonella outbreak that’s killed eight people so far and sickened hundreds — if not thousands — of others. This follows another devastating salmonella food poisoning onslaught last fall which struck down many Americans via a Mexican produce supplier. |
To eat, or not to eat? That’s hardly the question, since we must ingest and imbibe to survive. But with America rocked by another salmonella food poisoning outbreak, questions do arise. One is, “How bad is it?” Another is, “What do we do now?”