"A South Georgia peanut butter plant linked to a national salmonella outbreak failed to follow safe food practices when it found evidence of the bacteria in its products and still sold them, federal health officials said Tuesday.
The plant found salmonella contamination on 12 occasions in the past two years, but the company sold the products after an outside lab said the product was safe, federal investigators said.
During a news conference Tuesday, U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials said the Blakely plant should have followed safe food practices and destroyed, rather than sold, the products.
“This is a practice they should not have engaged in,” said Michael Rogers, director of the FDA’s field investigations division. “This is a violation of the law.”
Products from the Georgia plant, owned by Peanut Corporation of America, have been linked to a salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 500 people in 43 states and has been linked to the deaths of eight people.
Federal officials from the FDA and Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday the company’s internal records revealed that in 2007 and 2008 the company’s own labs found the peanut products contained the bacteria."
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