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How expensive were the peanut butter recalls? « Later On — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:39:43 +0000

[...] in Business, Daily life, Food, Government, Health, Science at 8:39 am by LeisureGuy Marion Nestle figures the approximate magnitude in Food Politics: Bill Marler, the lawyer whose specialty is helping clients obtain compensation [...]

By: Sheila

Sheila — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:03:44 +0000

Advice from the government about how to produce a safe product is all well and good, but I suspect the companies already know how to produce safe products. I suspect these companies such as the peanut company simply produce unsafe food because it is cheaper, thus inflates their profit margins. It seems there is no shortage of information about how to produce safe foods, simply a shortage of ethical dedication to the safety of the consumer. The peanut company had been told of roaches and rodent feces by some of the employees, but did not fix the problem. The peanut company had red flag warnings of salmonella positive tests, but ignored those tests and went in search of other results. The people in charge of this company were not uninformed, they were simply unethical and greedy in their conduct, then took the selfish coward way out immediately by filing bankruptcy to shed themselves of financial liability. A nice little fact sheet about how to produce safe peanuts will not fix this problem.

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By: Sheila