In Peanut Checks, Gaps for Salmonella to Sneak By
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 10:42
in Mathematics & Economics
ATLANTA (AP) -- Food regulators didn't consider salmonella a threat to most peanut products before they traced an outbreak to a peanut butter plant in Georgia two years ago. Officials in the nation's top peanut-producing state promptly began checking for the bacteria during routine inspections, and everything went fine for about a year.