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In February, ConAgra Foods recalled Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter produced at a Georgia manufacturing plant due to salmonella contamination cases. Now, 39 food-poisoning suits involving dozens of litigants have mushroomed into multidistrict litigation in Atlanta federal court.

FDA officials went to investigate a contamination complaint at a ConAgra’s foods factory in Georgia in 2005. The managers at the plant refused to provide documents to the inspectors so the inspectors left and didn’t follow up. WTF? Why send someone out in the first place. I wonder how this went…..

Now that we know Salmonella contamination in peanut butter was originated in ConAgra’s peanut butter processing plant in Georgia, as the Food and Drug Administration confirmed on March 1, the next question to ask is, how could Salmonella find its way into the famous brands of Peter Pan peanut butter and Great Value peanut butter.

Peanut butter marketed under the national brand name "Peter Pan" and also sold by Wal-Mart under its house brand name of "Great Value" may contain a value-added ingredient you weren't expecting: salmonella. The peanut butter was produced by ConAgra Foods, Inc. at its Sylvester, Georgia plant, which has since been shut down after the scare.