The Georgia peanut butter maker identified as the source of the salmonella outbreak that has killed eight people and sickened over 500 knowingly shipped salmonella-tainted peanut butter 12 times in 2007 and 2008, the Washington Post reports, "Peanut Processor Knowingly Sold Tainted Products." The Post reports:
Officials at the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which have been investigating the outbreak of salmonella illness, said yesterday that 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.
The company was not required to disclose its tainted products to federal or state officials.
In addition to killing eight people and harming more than 500, the salmonella outbreak has caused recall of more than 100 products. To review the list click here.
