Dead Rodents In Peanut Plant
By: Allison Morrison
Updated: February 12, 2009
State officials ordered a mandatory recall of all products ever shipped from the Plainview Peanut Plant, owned by the Peanut Corporation of America.
Officials are still working up a list of items shipped out of Plainview and where they were shipped.
The Plainview plant blanches, roasts and chops peanuts, then ships them to food companies across the country.
Texas Health Services workers say dead rodents, rodent droppings and bird feathers were discovered Wednesday in a crawl space above a production area.
Federal investigators have e-mails showing the owner of the Plainview and Blakely plants ordered salmonella infected products be shipped.
