January 29, 2009
In the paper today was a piece about peanuts. A good quantity of peanut-related products had been shipped out with healthy doses of contamination by a bacteria that can cause sickness. Those in charge of the government agencies who look into such matters said that the company, Peanut Corporation of America, knowingly sold the contaminated products. One FDA official, speaking from his farm in Des Moines, where he’d just chased down a stray heifer, had this to say: “I’m still getting my mind around the fact that there’s a company called “Peanut Corporation of America”—and it’s not a joke.”
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