BUSINESS BRIEFING / FOOD SAFETY
The Texas plant owned by a peanut company blamed in a national salmonella outbreak that sickened nearly 700 people has been fined $14.6 million.
The Texas Department of State Health Services said it was fining Plainview Peanut Co. over violations that include unsanitary conditions, product contamination, illnesses linked to peanuts from their plant and operating without a food manufacturers’ license. The plant was shut down Feb. 9.
Plant owner Peanut Corp. of America has been blamed for the outbreak believed to have caused at least nine deaths.
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