Personal Injury Law

Inspections Still Lacking Despite Salmonella Outbreaks

By Edward Bills

Food safety officials failed to ramp up inspection efforts in the wake of four peanut-related salmonella outbreaks during the past three years, the Washington Post reports. According to the online edition of the newspaper, the Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged that it still has not intensified scrutiny of peanut plants or required inspectors to test for the bacteria. The four outbreaks are blamed for more than 1,400 illnesses and nine deaths.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on April 03, 2009 (boomark / email).