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Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) was a peanut-processing business which is now defunct as a result of one of the most massive and lethal food-borne contamination events in U.S. history. [ 2 ] PCA was founded in 1977 and initially run by Hugh Parnell with three sons, including Stewart Parnell.
On February 5, 2009, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Peanut Corporation of America and a subsidiary, Tidewater Blanching LLC, were banned from all federal government contracts and subcontracts for one year, saying the company: "lacks business integrity and business honesty, which seriously and directly hinders its ...
Following the recent nationwide salmonella outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration inspected the Peanut Corp. of America (PCA) plant in Blakely, Georgia. The FDA's findings are more than a little
Salmonellosis in peanut butter from Peanut Corporation of America in Blakely, Georgia has become "one of the nation’s worst known outbreaks of food-borne disease" in recent years. Nine are believed to have died and an estimated 22,500 were sickened.
Nine people die when the CEO of Peanut Corporation of America and his brother, who bought the company founded decades ago by their father, knowingly ships peanut products tainted with salmonella. [39]
9. Smuckers Lost Out on a PB&J Patent. J.M. Smuckers, maker of the lunch-box-friendly Uncrustables peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, probably figured it had little to lose by patenting a "sealed ...
Image credits: peanut_the_squirrel12 Keasler denied any involvement in the case, which caused a worldwide uproar, during an appearance with her attorney, Bill Price, on the iHeart podcast Veronica ...
On February 13, 2009, Peanut Corporation of America filed for Chapter 7 liquidation following the massive extensive peanut butter recall. In 2014, The United States Department of Justice criminally indicted Parnell and his family for committing at least 70 counts of felony wire and mail fraud after being unanimously found guilty of those ...