NATIONAL BRIEFING / GEORGIA
Times Wire Reports
A Georgia peanut butter plant at the center of a probe of a nationwide salmonella outbreak has laid off most of its roughly 50 workers.
Production is shut down at the Peanut Corp. of America plant in Blakely, which made peanut butter and peanut paste blamed for sickening 486 people in more than 40 states since fall. Six have died.
It is not clear when the plant will be running again and whether the workers will be brought back.
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