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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Blakely Peanut Plant Gets Tour By Victim's Lawyer

A lawyer representing victims in the recent nationwide salmonella outbreak will today tour the south Georgia peanut plant linked to that outbreak. The attorney will be joined by a team of experts inside the Peanut Corporation of America plant in Blakely. Today’s tour follows one at a PCA plant in Texas. The outbreak sickened hundreds across the country, and linked to the deaths of nine people. Several lawsuits are pending against the company.

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