Peanuts come off the menu
by Tedhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/dining/11peanuts.html
“The immediate response has to be, rip it off the menu,” said Johnny Iuzzini, pastry chef at Jean Georges, who checked the Food and Drug Administration’s Web site daily until the restaurant’s Bronx-based nut supplier, Bazzini, was completely cleared.
Hundreds of products containing peanut butter have been recalled, all of them involving the products of the Peanut Corporation of America. All the major supermarket brands of peanut butter have been cleared of any contamination.
Records show peanut plant president complained about delays caused by contamination reports.
WASHINGTON — As salmonella illness began spreading across the country in the fall, the owner of a Georgia peanut company that was causing the outbreak railed against the cost and delays that the contamination was causing his businesses, according to internal company documents obtained by Congress.
Stewart Parnell, president of the Peanut Corporation of America, also pressed federal regulators to allow him to continue using peanuts from the tainted plant and shipped products to customers with a homemade certificate that falsely attested to their purity
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