Cenk Uygur
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Peanut Plant Executive Sentenced For Deadly Contamination
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July 28, 2015
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6:12Now Playing"Sammy Lightsey had just started managing a Georgia peanut plant when he realized something was wrong. The plant wasn’t waiting for lab tests to confirm that its peanut products were free from salmonella before shipping them around the country.
He went straight to the top, telling executives he couldn’t do it.
“It was illegal and it was wrong,” he testified in court last year. He said he was told “it was set up before I got there” and “don’t worry.”
Indeed, its products were not salmonella-free. Peanut butter and peanut paste produced by Peanut Corporation of America were later found to be contaminated, triggering an outbreak in 2008 and 2009 that killed nine people and sickened some 700 others. The company’s owner had given the go-ahead to ship containers that were partially “covered in dust and rat crap,” according to court documents.” *
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