ConAgra says moisture in peanut butter plant spread salmonella

[napi21]

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/politics/17033146.htm

Childs said the company traced the salmonella outbreak to three incidents in its Sylvester, Ga., plant last August.

The plant's roof leaked during a rainstorm and the sprinkler system went off twice because of a faulty sprinkler, which was repaired.

The moisture from those three incidents mixed with dormant salmonella bacteria in the plant that Childs said likely came from raw peanuts and peanut dust.

She said the plant was cleaned thoroughly after the roof leak and sprinkler incidents, but somehow the salmonella remained and came in contact with peanut butter before it was packaged.

I know when I first heard about this peanut butter recall, I said this was some contamination during the mfg. process. SOMBODY screwed up! Well, low and behold, a roof leak and faulty sprinkler that SOMEBODY FAILED TO CLEAN UP PROPERLY! EVERYBODY who works in a food mfg. facility knows to do EVERYTHING to eliminate the risk ofcontamination, and you never take a chance that "oh, it'll probably be OK."

[Rosemary2205]

1. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww

"The moisture from those three incidents mixed with dormant salmonella bacteria in the plant"


Dormant salmonella??? Just lying around waiting to be stirred up? Go ahead, ask me if I ever eat those peanut butters again......Ewwwwww.

Geez, how often do they clean the place??

[Beaverhausen]

2. My thoughts exactly! YUCK!!!