The Peanut Corp. of America plant in Plainview, Texas, has been found to have been operating for years uninspected and unlicensed by government health officials.
The company’s Georgia plant is the source of the current nationwide salmonella outbreak, responsible for more than 500 reported illnesses and as many as eight deaths.
The Texas plant wasn’t licensed with health officials and had never been inspected since it opened in March 2005.
The Texas plant blanches, dry roasts, oil-roasts and chops peanuts, then ships them to food companies across the country.
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