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For the third straight day only NBC has considered the Peanut Corporation of America worthy of coverage by a reporter. Tuesday Tom Costello covered FDA charges that the firm went "lab shopping" for negative results when its batches of processed peanuts tested positive for salmonella. Wednesday Robert Bazell covered the Georgia Department of Agriculture's failure to spot safety violations. Now Bazell turns to the results of the Food & Drug Administration's inspection earlier this month that found mold on the ceiling, leaks of rain water, slimy residue on a conveyor belt, cockroaches dead and alive--and a sink that "was used interchangeably as a point for cleaning hands and utensils and washing out mops."
Andrew Tyndall 1/31/09 1:19:35 am

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