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Fun food and toxic food rounded out the week. ABC's David Wright updated us on the Food & Drug Administration's investigation of the Peanut Corporation of America concerning the deaths of eight from salmonella poisoning. The FDA now alleges that PCA broke the law by failing to suspend shipments of processed peanuts from its Georgia factory after a positive test for the lethal bacteria. That finding increases the possibility that PCA executives will be punished with prison sentences.
NBC sent Mara Schiavocampo to Spamtown USA for food fun. She visited the Hormel luncheon meat factory in Austin Minn, which is working "around the clock churning out can after can of Spam." The brand's newfound popularity derives in part from its low price in these recessionary times and in part from its versatility as an ingredient in foods from "muffins to salads to burgers." Then there is the Presidential factor. Barack Obama, on his recent vacation to his native state, revealed himself to be a fan: see Hawaii's Spam sushi.
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