Now, we know about discarding anything that has peanut butter in it !
Yeah right!!! Now !
China isn't the only country that has trouble poilcing it's food industry.
500 people have fallen ill and health authorities believe eight deaths may be linked to salmonella contaminated peanut products.The culprit,a Georgia processing plant, Peanut Corp. of America.
Lax enforcement of loose federal and state regulations makes it easy for tainted products to glide into the food chain.
It seems no law required the plant to tell state inspectors in 2006 that it had detected salmonella a dozen times in 2007 and 2008.In fact when the initial test showed contamination, the company got a clean bill of health from a different laboratory. So this product has been out there for awhile.
Makes you wonder how many others are out there ,and has this been done before.
Do you really have to wonder ?
Now....., Georgia lawmakers are upset. ...Now ?
Now they want to propose companies to report their testing results to authorities.
In my opinion they should be equally angry that the Georgia Department of Agriculture inspectors didn't shut them down in 2006 when it discovered florishing strains of salmonella!
The Food and Drug Admin. should not escape a thrashing either !
I find all of this to be incompetence and incomprehensible !
As if our new president doesn't have enough on his plate, but to launch an investigation of the FDA and a criminal investigation of Peanut Corp.
In any case, a closer examination why the government has failed to police the food on our tables is fully warranted.
My advice, take PBJ's off the menu !
At least for awhile.
If not forever !
Posted By: Min.Dr.LaDonna Blaylock D.D.
Saturday, February 7th 2009 at 3:14PM
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