The former manager of a Georgia peanut plant knowingly shipped out peanuts with false safety documents, causing nine deaths and making over 700 more sick, Guardianlv.com reports. Sammy Lightsey told jurors that he did not think that he was “intentionally hurting anyone” while testifying at the trial of his former boss, Stewart Parnell. Quality assurance manager, Mary Wilkerson, Parnell and his brother, food broker Michael Parnell, were all indicted for shipping peanuts tainted with salmonella and falsifying safety documents to cover up lab tests showing the nuts tested positive for the bacteria.
Read more.
Source: http://guardianlv.com
Latest from Quality Assurance & Food Safety
- FDA, CDC Investigate Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Live It Up Dietary Supplement Powder
- USDA FSIS Announces New Deputy Administrator of Field Operations
- ProVeg Incubator Launches Fast-Track to Impact Program for Alt-Protein Startups
- Kerry Releases 2026 Global Taste Charts
- FDA Shares Australia Certificate Requirements for Bivalve Molluscs and Related Products
- FDA Announces Update from CFIA on Certificate Requirements for Certain Meat, Poultry Products
- NIMA Partners Introduces the Next-Generation NIMA Gluten Sensor
- IFT to Host Community Conversation on Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030 Report
