posted on February 11, 2009 01:09:02 PM new
Watching those scumbags take the 5th in front of congress made me sick to my stomach. If it's proven that they sent that poison into the market with the knowledge that it was contaminated, I hope they are all prosecuted for murder. Their products went into SCHOOLS for god's sake.
posted on February 11, 2009 02:03:21 PM new
We're on the same page with this one, prof. They should be prosecuted for murder. What they did was unconscionable. They knew full well how many children they could have killed by their actions. It makes me sick.
Not to mention my favorite snack, cheese and PB crackers, are now gone off the shelves.
posted on February 11, 2009 02:50:12 PM new
Disgusting behavior on their part. I agree they should be prosecuted. And the president of the co. took the fifth!
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posted on February 11, 2009 03:39:56 PM new
Helen, peanut butter sandwiches are standard fare in lots of schools for kids who show up with no lunch from home and no lunch money. In my school, we take reasonable precautions to protect those few kids with food allergies, but to a great degree the onus is on the kid and especially his parents. Banning entirely a food that has so much nutrition at such a reasonable cost to protect so few isn't feasible. I've seen a number of kids with nut allergies over the years. It's always a surprise to me how well informed they and their parents are. Some of them are ok as long as they don't eat any nuts, and some absolutely cannot be in the same room with an open bag of nuts. We let those severe cases eat in the office. They invariably bring their own lunch. We also post nut allergy signs in the classrooms and have our nurse give the class a talk about the importance of leaving certain foods at home in addition to sending a letter home to all parents explaining the situation. So far so good, and the non allergic kids can still have their PBJ when they don't have lunch money. At least, they could until recently. Our food service provider has stopped ordering anything containing peanuts until this mess is cleared up. Now they get "cheese" crisps
posted on February 11, 2009 04:07:18 PM new
Interesting. I read last week about a school bus in Massachusetts that was evacuated because someone saw a peanut on the floor of the bus.
posted on February 11, 2009 06:34:35 PM new
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calf.) presented PCA emails he said were written by Parnell. In the emails, Parnell pushes workers to ship peanuts that had tested positive for salmonella. In one of them, Parnell insists that PCA needs to “turn the raw peanuts on our floor into money.” In another, he tells his plant manager to “turn them loose” after learning some peanuts were contaminated with salmonella.
In another missive sent on June 6, 2008, Parnell responds to news that peanuts that tested positive for salmonella had been shipped from the PCA factory. “I go through this about once a week. I will hold my breath again.”
“What they (the emails) show is this company cared more about its financial bottom line than about the safety of its customers,” Waxman said during the hearing.
