ATLANTA AP – Of Georgia’s four peanut butter plants, the one at the center of an investigation into a nationwide salmonella outbreak was the only one where samples weren’t pulled last year to be tested for the potentially deadly bacteria, according to inspection records released Monday by the Georgia Department of Agriculture.
State officials did two inspections at the Peanut Corp. of America plant in Blakely last year – including one on Oct. 23, more than a month after the first people were sickened – but there is no indication in those reports that samples were taken for any kind of testing.
