In peanut checks, gaps for salmonella to sneak by
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 18:28
in Mathematics & Economics
(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.