From The New York Times:
Inspections of the plant in Blakely, Ga., by the state agriculture department found areas of rust that could flake into food, gaps in warehouse doors large enough for rodents to get through, unmarked spray bottles and containers, and numerous violations of other practices designed to prevent food contamination. The plant, owned by Peanut Corporation of America of Lynchburg, Va., has been shut down.
A typical entry from an inspection report, dated Aug. 23, 2007, noted: “The food-contact surfaces of re-work kettle in the butter room department were not properly cleaned and sanitized.” Additional entries noted: “The food-contact surfaces of the bulk oil roast transfer belt in the mezzazine [sic] room were not properly cleaned and sanitized. The food-contact surfaces of pan without wheels in the blanching department were not properly cleaned and sanitized.”
A code violation in the same report observed “clean peanut butter buckets stored uncovered,” while another cited a “wiping cloth” to “cover crack on surge bin.” Tests on samples gathered on the day of that inspection were negative for salmonella.
Props to Marler Blog.
I’m looking forward to the day that I can once again enjoy a peanutbutter and honey sandwich, possibly toasted and maybe some cinnomin as well, without concern that it might be poisoning me.
Reads like a nursing home survey. If you knew how many deficiencies a typical nursing home has, you’d shoot yourself before you’d go into one.
Republicans don’t like regulations, inspections, or cease-and-desist orders. They want the freedom to sell you rat shit and label it as “hamburger.”
@1 We never worried about whether our food was safe in this country until Bush came along. Do you remember what Bush tried to do to beef inspection? He wanted to fire all the federal beef inspectors and give taxpayer money to meatpackers to hire their own meat inspectors, who, of course, would report to plant foremen — and would never find anything wrong with the meat, no matter how many kids were killed by e. coli.
So the question is, do we prosecute Republicans for murder, or only manslaughter?
and some wonder why I worry about unregulated sale of drugs?
And the company that owned the plant is based the same town that the late, unlamented Jerry Falwell spewed his own filth from. I wonder if the plant’s owners were in some way connected with that…….
It’s gotta be Jimmy Carter’s fault.
Perhaps some of his kinfolk own the place?
Mr. Cynical threw slime at President Carter before I predicted that one of the trolls would do so.
You guys are so damn predictable.
N in–
Jimmy is a pretty easy target….21% interest rates & screwing up the Iran crisis…I’m just gettin’ started.
Hey cynical, you read what rhp6033 said about Iceland being brought down by Conservative economic policies. Do you disagree with his facts?
Cynical, here’s some facts about carter and inflation. God you are wrong a lot.
I guess there will be no more FDA gaffes under Obama. He’s already killed foreign civilians in Pakastan, a nation we are not at war with.
All praise Obama (glory to his name) for ending disease and poverty and war!
so has peanut corp et al told the consumers who buys their skanked product yet? does the fda give a damn?
I can solve our regulatory problem. Just put a republican congress member in charge of taste testing everything sold as food on the market and eliminate all regulations. When the fuck dies – then we’ll all know the food wasn’t safe.
All hail the republican’s vision of the the modern day Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.
re 10: If you could get your historical facts correct, you’d realize the hostage crisis was resolved during the Carter administration.
The Reagan political campaign contacted the Iranians and promised them arms for hostages if they would delay the release of the hostages so it would not help Carter in the Presidential election.
That is traitorous on the part of Ronald Reagan. He later admitted that what he did was unconstitutional, but (gosh darn it), it didn’t ‘feel’ like it was unconstitutional.
Feelings — Nothing more than feelings…..
Blue John–
Where did you dig up that cut-and-paste BS??
When you do that, cite your source.
It was probably Roslyn Carter….or the ghost of Billy!
Re: Iceland, I agree there was greed….by the citizens and the bankers. Greed is an ugly thing. But Iceland also flaunted their elite status…the higher they fly, the farther they fall. Lots of giveaways.
Hey Blue John..
Are you any closer to that $200,000 Seattle House you’ve been coveted and dreaming about?
Call Obama and tell him what you want.
He’s just like Santa…right?
I with you Roger. The FDA serves as a microcosm of how the neocon dream overcame the majority of our federal agencies public responsiblities in the last eight years.
I see the trolls are still fighting long lost battles here.
@19 The trolls are apologists for an exploitation ideology that sees human beings as profit centers.
@8 Don’t blame farmers for turning peanuts into rat crap.
@10 Those 21% interest rates were necessary to rescue the economy from the Nixon-Ford stagflation. That’s right, these two back-to-back Republican presidents slammed us with the triple whammy of high inflation, high unemployment, and no growth; and the Republican who succeeded Carter gave us the worst depression since the 1930s. And you blame Carter, who was sandwiched between 4 Republican presidents — two on each end of his term — for Republican economic mismanagement?
I DON’T THINK SO …
Disgusting and dirty, alright. I mean a middle-aged democrat mayor who would make out with a minor. And later have sex with the kid. But hey—it’s a good thing Sam Adams didn’t simply limit himself to sending ‘sexy’ emails to a minor. Because just sending emails is worse than making out with a minor. At least, that’s the message we’re getting here. Sure it doesn’t make sense. But that’s the double standard we’re dealing with here, isn’t it?
#20: Did you notice that Nancy Pelosi sees people as PROBLEMS? Hence the push to eliminate the possibility of having more of them around? This, from a woman with five kids. You can’t make this stuff up!
@12 What Bush did to the FDA wasn’t a “gaffe.” He deliberately gutted the regulatory system that ensured the safety of America’s drug and food supplies. That will cost his party millions of votes for many years to come.
Goodness how delicious. Eatin’ goober salmonella.
The power attributed to Democrats is quite impressive. Most bad things which occurred in Bush II’s term were attributed to Clinton. Now Mr. C finds Jimmy Carter’s power lingering decades after he left office.
I use a market-based approach to drug safety. I won’t take any drug that was approved when Bush was president.
@24 I’m pretty sure she only sees Republicans as problems. Frankly, I’m not sure what we should do with Republicans. The word “quarantine” comes to mind.
@18 I know how to get a $200,000 house. First, you wait for Republican economics to turn $500,000 houses into $200,000 houses. Then you buy a jar of peanut butter from a company regulated by Republican appointees. Then you hire a good personal injury lawyer.
When you don’t respond, it makes you look like a liar. Cynical
“16. headlesslucy spews:
re 10: If you could get your historical facts correct, you’d realize the hostage crisis was resolved during the Carter administration.
The Reagan political campaign contacted the Iranians and promised them arms for hostages if they would delay the release of the hostages so it would not help Carter in the Presidential election.
That is traitorous on the part of Ronald Reagan. He later admitted that what he did was unconstitutional, but (gosh darn it), it didn’t ‘feel’ like it was unconstitutional.
Feelings — Nothing more than feelings…..”
Jeus Christ…..4 more months and I can retire to Asia and get away from the fucking whackjob “conservatives” and religious nuts that have infested what used to be a wonderful country. The joint has surely changed since I was a kid.
But no matter, a few more “conservatives” and it will be a third world country, the wealthy recipients of “conservative family values” having fled to the Caribbean to view the wreckage from afar.
What a bunch of pathetic, self-righteous pyschopaths.