OH BROTHER!
Posted on 02/11/2009 9:33:26 AM PST by gondramB
Washington — U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, chairman of a House subcommittee on oversight and investigation, gaveled hearings open today on the salmonella outbreak saying, “the psychological cost has been widespread.” ...
• In one e-mail, Lightsey wrote Parnell discussing positive salmonella tests on its products, but Parnell gave instructions to nonetheless “turn them loose” after getting a negative test result from another testing company.
• In another e-mail, Parnell expressed his concerns over the losing “$$$$$$” due to delays in shipment and costs of testing.
• Parnell in another company-wide e-mail told employees there was no salmonella in its plants, instead accusing the news media of “looking for a news story where there currently isn’t one.”
Even in the heat of the nationwide outbreak that has killed eight people and sickened hundreds more, Parnell seemed more worried about his company’s profits than with the food safety, according to regulators and congressional investigators.
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One of my concerns is that while we caught this one - how would we ever know if the source had been Chinese. It looks like the recall depended on the company telling the FDA what products their peanut butter was in. And they lied when they said they didn't sell peanut butter to retailers. This make me even less comfortable with untraceable Chinese food.
Ah, but the chinese are our friends...
The guy could lose his nuts over this.
At first glance, I thought this was about Jimmy Carter.
Any of Jimminy Karters peanuts involved???
Go ahead and sue, you’ll only win peanuts.
What’s the saying - great minds think alike?
OH BROTHER!
This guy should be held down and force fed his own poisonous peanut paste.
I like to think that private companies will police themselves without the FDA or other government orgs, then something like this happens...
>>This guy should be held down and force fed his own poisonous peanut paste.<<
Obviously the first issue are the people this killed and sickened....
but the economic damage to the whole peanut industry is important too - peanut butter was in 90% of American homes and sales were trending strongly up. Now, sales are crashing - not just from this crooked company but from every producer and it will harm farmers who are already hurting.
Good time to buy peanut butter.
Corporate America has lost its moral compass.
They've been behaving as though “Do what thou wilt” IS the whole of the law; and this is their attitude to the public:
Where's LEO?
Parnell to customers: Nuts! ;)
Why is Congress investigating this? Isn’t this to be handled by the various states and FBI?
One of the “various states,” Georgia, was irregularly inspecting the rat trap facility and letting things go. Not good enough.
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