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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-09 08:54 PM
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Factory Knowingly Sent Contaminated Peanut Butter, Officials Say
Edited on Tue Jan-27-09 08:55 PM by cynatnite
The Georgia peanut plant linked to a salmonella outbreak that has killed eight people and sickened another 500 across the country knowingly shipped out contaminated peanut butter 12 times in the past two years, federal officials said yesterday.

Officials at the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which have been investigating the salmonella outbreak, said yesterday that the Peanut Corporation of America found salmonella in internal tests a dozen times in 2007 and 2008 but sold the products anyway, sometimes after getting a negative finding from a different laboratory.

Companies are not required to disclose their internal tests to either the FDA or state regulators, so health officials did not know of the problem.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/27/AR2009012702992.html
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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-09 08:56 PM
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1. China executes executives who do things like that
What will we do?
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-09 09:01 PM
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4. Yep. China doesn't wait around either. One gets the death penalty-
short time later-dead. Not like in US, where someone lives years on death row.
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NOW tense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-09 08:56 PM
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2. They are lucky they don't live in China.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-09 08:59 PM
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3. i saw that....shut them down NOW. good god. they are not required to disclose???? WTF????
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-09 09:04 PM
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5. WTF is wrong with these people? Seriously, most of the people eating this shit are kids.
Edited on Tue Jan-27-09 09:04 PM by MichiganVote
Gitmo...if its good enough for terrorists, its good enough for fuckers like this.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-09 09:05 PM
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6. The article says 8 people died from this.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-09 09:44 PM
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8. Which makes it what? Negligent homicide? Depraved indifference to human life?
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katandmoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-09 09:39 PM
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7. They probably figured they'd get away with it since BushCo's FDA was on business's side
Sick kids be damned, it costs corporations MONEY to avoid salmonella.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-09 09:46 PM
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9. They will be sued into the ground, and there will be criminal charges as well.
No more corporation, and some executives will be doing jail time and facing huge personal liability claims.
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safeinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-09 09:59 PM
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11. Thank God for lawyers.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-09 09:47 PM
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10. if that statement that they knowingly did it is true, someone needs to go to jail
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