What the heck!! I am appalled after reading an article about Peanut Corp in Georgia--you know the peanut product company that got shut down after the recent salmonella outbreaks?
The Georgia plant found 12 (!) positive tests for salmonella, but kept sending the contaminated samples to different labs to get negative results!! It's really sad that the employees couldn't afford to notify the authorities sooner.
Here are a few exerpts from the article:
"According to the workers, not a day went by that they didn't see roaches or rats scurrying about. And after a heavy rain, workers said, they had to step over puddles of water inside the building.
"Another former employee, James, 36, said he worked in the shipping area for eight months before leaving last year. During that time, James said he "saw them put new stickers on buckets of peanut paste that were out-of-date. There were roaches, rats and everything out there.
"Some of the bags of nuts had holes in them, and you could tell rats had eaten through them. And they would put tape on them or sew them up and send them out," James said. "Sometimes there would be mold on them, and they told us to pick out the good nuts and put them in another bag."
"He said the employees often talked among themselves about the conditions, but he said most workers did not complain to management because they wanted to keep their jobs.
"I'm not surprised this happened," James said. "I just hate that people died."
Well, there you go. I just got chills.
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