FDA Was Aware Of Problems Long Before Peanut Butter, Spinach Outbreaks

FDA Was Aware Of Problems Long Before Peanut Butter, Spinach Outbreaks

The Food and Drug Administration has known for years about contamination problems at a Georgia peanut butter plant and on California spinach farms that led to disease outbreaks that killed three people, sickened hundreds, and forced one of the biggest product recalls in U.S. history, documents and interviews show.

Overwhelmed by huge growth in the number of food processors and imports, however, the agency took only limited steps to address the problems and relied on producers to police themselves, according to agency documents.

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