Read more Peanut Corporation of America stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/37648/peanut-corporation-of-america.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 8:54:18 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/55814/peanut-plant-slapped-with-record-146m-fine.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Texas peanut plant owned by the company blamed for a nationwide salmonella outbreak has been ordered to shell out $14.6 million for safety violations, AP reports. State officials levied the fine—the largest ever in Texas—for violations including unsanitary conditions, product contamination and operating without a license...http://www.newser.com/story/55814/peanut-plant-slapped-with-record-146m-fine.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 10 Apr 2009 3:16:44 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54584/roof-leak-at-plant-implicated-in-outbreak.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA leaky roof at the Peanut Corporation of America’s Georgia plant is seen as a possible culprit for the recent salmonella outbreak, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Not only is water necessary to activate salmonella, but rain could have washed salmonella-carrying bird droppings into the plant. “Allowing water to get into...http://www.newser.com/story/54584/roof-leak-at-plant-implicated-in-outbreak.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 27 Mar 2009 13:40:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52550/food-hazards-elude-private-inspectors.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe job of monitoring America's food plants is falling more and more to private inspectors who often miss hazards, a New York Times investigation finds. Plants hire such auditors to reassure customers and reduce liability, but the companies often pick the cheapest and least rigorous audits available. Some of the...http://www.newser.com/story/52550/food-hazards-elude-private-inspectors.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Mar 2009 6:43:31 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/51720/salmonella-toll-hits-666-sick-and-climbing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPeanut-linked salmonella has sickened 666 people and counting, despite a massive food recall, Reuters reports. The illness has killed nine. “To date, 19 clusters of infections in five states have been reported in schools and other institutions,” said a health official. “King Nut brand peanut butter was present in all...http://www.newser.com/story/51720/salmonella-toll-hits-666-sick-and-climbing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 25 Feb 2009 6:30:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/51586/would-better-laws-have-caught-salmonella-scare.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA third of US states do not require testing of the salmonella bacteria involved in reported illnesses, possibly hampering national efforts to identify outbreaks, MSNBC reports. If testing were mandatory, proponents say, a strain’s widespread dissemination could be more quickly identified and the source more easily pinpointed. But states without...http://www.newser.com/story/51586/would-better-laws-have-caught-salmonella-scare.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Feb 2009 18:33:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/50783/peanut-corp-files-for-bankruptcy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe latest victim of the nationwide salmonella outbreak is the Peanut Corporation of America, which filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy today, the Lynchburg News & Advance reports. “Given the events of the past month, including the broad-based recalls, the company has no alternative but to cease operations,” a lawyer for...http://www.newser.com/story/50783/peanut-corp-files-for-bankruptcy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 13 Feb 2009 14:53:05 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/50673/dead-rodents-trigger-recall-at-texas-peanut-plant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTexas has ordered a recall of all products ever shipped from a Peanut Corp. of America plant in Plainview amid a nationwide salmonella outbreak. The order came from the Department of State Health Services, which says "dead rodents, rodent excrement, and bird feathers" were discovered yesterday in a crawl space...http://www.newser.com/story/50673/dead-rodents-trigger-recall-at-texas-peanut-plant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 12 Feb 2009 19:33:20 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/50600/congress-shames-the-peanut-man.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCongress knew it wasn’t going to get any answers out of Stew Parnell, the man whose company's peanut butter is suspected of killing eight people. Parnell doggedly took the Fifth on even the simplest questions, but it didn’t matter. Parnell was summoned only so he could be chastised, “put through...http://www.newser.com/story/50600/congress-shames-the-peanut-man.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 12 Feb 2009 10:03:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/50554/peanut-corp-execs-refuse-to-testify-to-congress.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPeanut Corp execs had little to say today to a congressional panel curious about the salmonella outbreak that sickened 600 people, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Invoking the Fifth Amendment, PCA president Stewart Parnell and plant manager Sammy Lightsey refused to answer any questions—including on whether they would be willing...http://www.newser.com/story/50554/peanut-corp-execs-refuse-to-testify-to-congress.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Feb 2009 13:51:00 CST