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All week long NBC tracked the peanut story coming out of Georgia: Tom Costello picked up on lab shopping by the Peanut Corporation of America Tuesday; Robert Bazell emphasized the record size of the recall of processed foods Wednesday; Thursday Bazell listed the Georgia factory's unsanitary conditions when it was finally inspected by the Food & Drug Administration. Now that the FDA has referred the PCA-based salmonella outbreak to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation, ABC's Lisa Stark and CBS' Mark Strassmann are playing catch-up. They both reported that a shipment of peanuts from the plant was rejected by Canadian customs officials in September of last year. CBS' Strassmann described the shipment as "filthy, putrid, decomposing, unfit for food and later shown to include metal fragments." Yet even then, "the FDA never inspected the facility."
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