Sucks to be You - Peanut Corporation of America
They closed a second plant today.
Reuters has the news and the reason:
Texas orders peanut recall from company's 2nd plant
Texas state health officials said on Thursday they had ordered the recall of products made at a plant operated by a company at the center of a big salmonella outbreak.
They said they had ordered Peanut Corp. of America to recall all products made at its Plainview, Texas, plant, which was closed this week as part of an investigation into the outbreak, which made about 600 people sick and may have killed nine.
"The order was issued after dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers were discovered yesterday in a crawl space above a production area during an in-depth Department of State Health Services inspection," the agency said in a statement.
"The inspection also found that the plant's air handling system was not completely sealed and was pulling debris from the infested crawl space into production areas of the plant resulting in the adulteration of exposed food products."
Who knows, rat feces may add a certain sense of piquancy to the Peanut Butter.
Don't think I want to find out firsthand though...
They should take Mr. Parnell, throw him in prison for ten years and feed him nothing but his own products. That would be poetic justice...
Posted by DaveH at February 12, 2009 8:41 PM