[test54]

yes its the government that penalizes a peanut plant for allowing tainted product to be shipped. Those damn regulations are soo horrible, lets let companies put whatever they want into our food.

[Dawg]

When you have to pay the lowest salarys because it cost you so much to operate to the government standards this is what you get.

[test54]

no, sorry but the lowest paid people are not the ones who said it was ok to send out tainted product.

[Dawg]

you'd be surprised. Ive worked in the food production industry. The QA inspectors were snotty nosed kids. When they knew the FDA was coming the big wigs would go down and take over the position.

[test54]

"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."

there is no excuse.

[Dawg]

What ever test I am tired of talking to you.

[test54]

then mission accomplished (for real this time though).

[mriff]

Obviously, we need regulation in the food production and processing industry. I don't think any one of us wants to return to the days of unregulated meat processing. I know I don't.

[djm2]

Mriff, you thinking Upton Sinclair by any chance?

[test54]

Originally Posted by djm2

Mriff, you thinking Upton Sinclair by any chance?

I've always been slightly afraid to read it, maybe I don't to become a vegetarian just yet.

[djm2]

It is a powerful book.

[mriff]

Originally Posted by djm2

Mriff, you thinking Upton Sinclair by any chance?

I was. It was a horrifying time. Some regulation is a good thing. A wise expenditure of tax dollars.

[djm2]

Originally Posted by mriff

I was. It was a horrifying time. Some regulation is a good thing. A wise expenditure of tax dollars.

Agreed entirely.

Off topic, I remember a few years ago when Chicago was just completely shut down by a freekishly large snow storm, and they established a blue ribbon commission to come up to Minneapolis and see how the city managed to cope with frequent blizzards like the one that had just shut down the Windy City. They came and left rather quickly, once they discovered that the budget for snow removal in Minneapolis was larger than the comparable budget in the much larger city of Chicago.

Moral of the Story: Even with taxes, you often get what you pay for.