Personal Injury Law

Your government protecting you after the fact.

By Edward Bills

Some batches of peanuts tainted with salmonella were not retested before shipping, and the FDA agency says
Peanut Corp. of America lied to Food and Drug Administration investigators (sitting in their ivory towers and not at the plant) about shipping batches of the food known to be tainted with salmonella bacteria.

The FDA did not formally announce the new findings about the company’s testing, but rather made small revisions Thursday to an online report about the investigation. Only when a Washington Post reporter discovered the changes did the news become more widely known.

Does this sound like a ‘coverup?’ - Someone at the FDA trying to CFA?

The Lynchburg, Va.-based company has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. It did not return phone calls Friday.

The Justice Department has begun a criminal investigation but it is unlikely that Justice will even look at the incompetence from the FDA.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on February 07, 2009 (boomark / email).