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The 2009 Peanut Corporation of America recall (or, PCA recall) is huge. It's estimated that nearly 20,000 people have been sickened by peanut-containing products from Peanut Corp. of America 's plant in Georgia , and eight deaths are confirmed to have been caused by Salmonella bacteria in Peanut Corp. products.
The Peanut Corporation of America recall involves more than 400 different food products that consumers had access to in U.S. schools, homes and a variety of institutions such as nursing homes and prisons. The Georgia plant processes raw peanuts into peanut butter (shipped in quantities as large as 1,700 pounds) and peanut paste (shipped in amounts large enough to fill an entire tanker truck). These products have been incorporated into more than 1,000 different food products in the U.S.
Indeed, it might be difficult to identify all of the peanut-containing foods that will eventually be part of the Peanut Corporation of America recall. The company supplies the U.S. government as well as the private market with its products. For example, federal officials said Feb. 6, 2009 that some 650,000 emergency meals would be shipped to people suffering from the ice storms in Kentucky and Arkansas , after it was found that earlier meals had Peanut Corporation of America recall peanut butter in them.
School lunch programs were also notified of the Peanut Corporation of America recall products. In fact, about half of the individuals sickened by the Peanut Corporation of America peanut-containing products are children. Children, the elderly and people with a weakened immune system or medical problem are most at risk from serious symptoms of Salmonella infections , including:
The Peanut Corporation of America is a family-owned business based in Virginia . According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Peanut Corporation of America manufactures about 2.5 percent of the processed peanuts in the U.S. each year. Their 2008 annual sales amounted to about $25 million. The Peanut Corporation of America recall was announced Jan. 28, 2009, described as including all peanuts and peanut products processed in the Peanut Corporation of America's Blakely , Georgia plant since Jan. 1, 2007.
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