1.28.2009

What you get for your tax cuts


The FDA has never inspected the plant.... The federal agency has said it does not have enough inspectors to visit the country's 65,520 domestic food production facilities. In fiscal 2008, it inspected 5,930 plants.



State inspectors...did not test either the factory or the peanut products for salmonella. "We do pull product samples from time to time, but we can only run 4,500 samples in a year, and we have 16,000 food-processing and food-sales stores in the state," said Oscar Garrison, Georgia's assistant agriculture commissioner for consumer protection.

[From Peanut Processor Ignored Salmonella Tests, Knowingly Sold Tainted Products - washingtonpost.com]


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