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Peanut Corporation of America to Liquidate

Peanut Corporation of America to Liquidate

The Peanut Corporation of America filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Friday in United States Bankruptcy Court in Virginia.

 

Peanut firm boss urged shipping bad products

Peanut firm boss urged shipping bad products

The owner of a peanut company urged his workers to ship tainted products after receiving test results identifying salmonella, according to company e-mails disclosed  by a House committee.

 

Company in salmonella probe shuts 2nd plant

The peanut company at the center of an investigation into a deadly national salmonella outbreak said Tuesday it has suspended operations at a second processing plant.

 

Peanut Corp of America says plant was inspected

Peanut Corp of America says plant was inspected

The U.S. peanut company at the center of a salmonella outbreak said on Wednesday federal and state regulators regularly visited a plant in Georgia that has been identified as the source of the contamination.

 

Plant found salmonella, sold products anyway

A South Georgia peanut processing plant linked to a national outbreak of salmonella had tested its products and found they contained the bacteria, yet still sold the products after retests were negative, federal food and drug officials said in a press conference Tuesday afternoon.

 

FDA says Georgia plant is sole salmonella source

The sole source of the US salmonella outbreak involving contaminated peanut butter appears to be the Peanut Corp of America's Blakely, Georgia processing facility, federal officials said on Wednesday.

 

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