Peanuts Now pistachios Don't eat'em Folks

[Tommyt]

I'm not looking for Dale's Job 
  The First one got me, now today , pistachios Tainted with salmonella contamination, I think these contaminations
can be stopped way before the Public public does the testing  , If memory's correct ,the Peanut was done by a Money Hungry guy who refused to listen to the warnings.
  He wasn't about to loose a day or so , of Production and Sales ,Instead he Jeopardized the entire US,took a GAMBLE and a GAMBLE gone Wrong ,an insurance Gamble,does that sound familiar ?, Scary if you think Deep
  What will he get for his Dastardly Deed ,I also think there may have been death involved with the Peanut Problem
I don't know about a Law , but I would think there should be something that Threatens them ,so that they will loose some Moneys versus Illness to the US population and he took the later 
I hate to say this but that Peanut deal was /could have been called a Terrorist act
OK done 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/business/31nuts.html?em

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FRESNO, Calif. -- Federal food safety officials warned Monday that consumers should stop eating all foods containing pistachios while they figure out the source of a possible salmonella contamination.

Still reeling from the national salmonella outbreak in peanuts, the Food and Drug Administration said central California-based Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc., the nation's second-largest pistachio processor, was voluntarily recalling a portion of the roasted nuts it has been shipping since last fall. A Setton spokeswoman said that amounts to more than 2 million pounds of nuts.

Our advice to consumers is that they avoid eating pistachio products, and that they hold onto those products," said Dr. David Acheson, assistant commissioner for food safety. "The number of products that are going to be recalled over the coming days will grow, simply because these pistachio nuts have then been repackaged into consumer-level containers."

Two people called the FDA complaining of gastrointestinal illness that could be associated with the nuts, but the link hasn't been confirmed, Acheson said. Still, the plant decided to shut down late last week, officials said.

The recalled nuts represent a small fraction of the 55 million pounds of pistachios that the company's plant processed last year and an even smaller portion of the 278 million pounds produced in the state in the 2008 season, according to the Fresno-based Administrative Committee for Pistachios.

California alone is the second-largest producer of pistachios in the world


I cut and Pasted only a Portion,but  did not Alter
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The Outstanding Public Debt as of 31 Mar 2009 at 05:37:59 PM GMT is:

[Oldshooter]

Well I guess the ones I ate yesterday were ok............... Man that is timely news.......Gulp!

[Sourdough]

In December I bought several packages of Peanut Butter Crackers at Sam's Club.  Norm and I went out camping and we ate them.  Then I left for my vacation.  Right after I left the wife received a letter from Sam's Club saying not to eat the items, either return them or throw them away.  She checked the remaining 2 packs out of 24, ( I bought two boxes of 12 ea) and they were the lot number being recalled.  Michelle called Norm and told him, Norm was having health issues since we had gotten back.  Runs, fever, felt like crap.  She called me in Florida, I was fine.  I never got sick, and I ate more than Norm did of the tainted product. 

I've been eating pistachios this week as well.  I went looking for some this morning before I left, she had tossed them.       

[Graybeard]

As much as I like pistachios they have been priced out of my budget of late. For my income level they just are not worth the current asking price. I'm sure this will run that price even higher. All this salmonella poisoning that is happening these days sure seems a tad strange to me. If I recall correctly it first occured in chickens and eggs and now seems to be spread to most all sorts of foods. I have to wonder why? 

[hunt-m-up]

Anyone ever stop to think that some of the people now processing these foods may be the cheapest labor some of these companies can find, but not necessarily the cleanest. Where many of these individuals come from do they strict vaccination standards? Are they used to the sanitation we've come to take for granted?
Up in my part of the world that means you should be concerned about the pork or beef you're eating...
And yes the price of Pistachios is ridiculous as far as I'm concerned.

[Oldshooter]

All this salmonella poisoning that is happening these days sure seems a tad strange to me.

Me too! 

[Sourdough]

When you hire cheap labor off the street, instead of having steady known well trained employees you run into problems. 

When I first retired I got a call from a friend.  He worked for the local news paper.  He needed someone to supervise the night shift.  That was when the collation and inserting was done.  These people were the most unproductive and totally uncaring group I had ever seen.  If you made one of them angry they would do something to shut down production.  Then no one would rat out the person that caused the stoppage.  With deadlines to meet that caused major problems.  The paper would hire the cheapest labor they could find.  Usually someone off the street.  The turnover rate was 100% in two weeks.  Some guys only lasted two or three nights.  The paper refused to pay a decent wage, therefore they got what they asked for.  I quite after two weeks, not because they were not paying me enough, but I did not like working with junkies, only working and looking for their next fix.

Here when you have a big company, who hires anyone off the street at the cheapest wage, you get the same type workforce.  Piss off one employee and they get retribution.  They can go to the bathroom and intentionally contaminate their hands and then come back and handle the food source, contaminating every thing they touch.  Oh but they make the employees wear gloves, get real how can someone put gloves on without handling them.  It very easy to contaminate the outside of the glove as you are putting it on.  That employee quites or gets fired, but one month later when the company is having to recall all their products, that person is sitting at home laughing.  Telling theirselves see what I did, I caused that.  In their own minds their self importance is souring.

Greed is ruining this country's industries.  Instead of paying their top people a good wage and spreading the money down, where the people at the bottom can make a comfortable income.  They pay the top people millions and pay the lowest workers peanuts.  This causes resentment amoungst the lower workers.  Leading to job dissatisfaction, and retribution when they feel slitted.