Personal Injury Law

So, what about the Peanut Corporation of America Virginia Facility?

By Bill Marler, Esq.

I am loving this Web Archive Site. I received an email from one of my subscribers asking, “Bill, the CDC and FDA have linked nearly 650 illnesses and nine deaths to PCA’s facility in Blakely, Georgia and the Colorado Department of Health may have linked some of the illnesses to the Plainview, Texas Plant.  In any event, those plants have been closed and a recall of all products from Blakely goes back to January 2007 and in Plainview back to 2005.  According to the FDA, 2233 types of peanut carrying food products have been recalled.  So, why hasn’t the Virginia plant been closed?"  Good question.  This is what I found about the Virginia Plant on the taken down PCA website:

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Frankly, given the Bankruptcy, I just assumed that the Virginia plant is closed (any better idea?).  Interestingly, I also found a link to an AIBI Audit in 2004 which gave the Virginia plant a “Superior” rating of 980.   Perhaps that is all the FDA needed.   I love the confidence shown by AIBI of the Virginia plant in this disclaimer:

Full post as published by Marler Blog on February 17, 2009 (boomark / email).