Did FDA Know About Peanut Butter Problems?
A recent Washington Post article has claimed that the FDA knew of problems at the Sylvester, Georgia Peter Pan peanut butter plant five years before the nationwide salmonella outbreak that prompted a peanut butter recall.
During a 2004 investigation, ConAgra apparently admitted to destroying a significant amount of product, but would not say why. However, according to USA today, a food safety spokesman said that "if inspectors had seen anything truly dangerous, the FDA would have taken more action. He said the FDA can't force a disclosure, recall or closure except in extreme cases, such as finding a hazardous batch of product."
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Comments
I just cant believe this story that the FDA new about this before people got sick I was under the assumption that we are protected from things like this taking place thats why we pay taxes People wonder why we are loosing faith in the people who are supposed to be watching over us this is supposed to be the greatest country in the world and now we are being treated like some poor third world country people wake up and start voting lets change the way we do business if you are a taxpayer then we have rights with the way our government spends our money the problems with the food chain should not happen and its becoming more and more common everyday some type of problem we need to wake up or our children and grandchildren wont have a chance I know from personal experiance that it can happen Most of my family got sick from the peanut butter including 3 of my grandchildren and that makes me feel like I didnt protect them they got sick while being at my home so america wake up and start saying something write letters make phone calls lets unite and fix these problems. Thanks Michael Gates
Posted by: Michael Gates | April 30, 2007 11:31 AM