The Peanut Butter Recall

I'm appalled at the whole Peanut Butter recall situation. I think the management of Peanut Corporation of America should be prosecuted as murderers and the workers at the plant should be prosecuted as accessories. If you work in a food processing facility and you see mildew, water dripping into food through a leaky roof, roaches near food handling areas, and know that your employer is shopping for a good lab result so that they can ship product containing salmonella, I'm sorry, but you have an obligation as a citizen to step forward and report the problems to authorities. Now, I'm wondering if every little whole in the wall food processing facility is just as bad.

Lee Spain said:

I'm appalled at the whole Peanut Butter recall situation. I think the management of Peanut Corporation of America should be prosecuted as murderers and the workers at the plant should be prosecuted as accessories. If you work in a food processing facility and you see mildew, water dripping into food through a leaky roof, roaches near food handling areas, and know that your employer is shopping for a good lab result so that they can ship product containing salmonella, I'm sorry, but you have an obligation as a citizen to step forward and report the problems to authorities. Now, I'm wondering if every little whole in the wall food processing facility is just as bad.

I understand they may very well be facing criminal charges.

I guess the FDA has also had problems with scientists trying to point out the holes in their system and being ignored. Failures at so many levels, I think I'm going to start growing my own peanuts again. (Yes, I actually grew my own peanuts once.) Maybe the CEO's of such companies must be forced to randomly eat a product from their own plants on a weekly basis. Bet you that would keep the product safety up!

Dawn