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Indictments Handed Down in 2009 Salmonella Outbreak

NewsCentral Staff

Story Created: Feb 21, 2013 at 11:22 PM EDT

Story Updated: Feb 22, 2013 at 12:46 AM EDT

A federal grand jury in Macon indicted 4 former officials of the Peanut Corporation of America in connection with a deadly salmonella outbreak in 2009.

The Justice Department says they are charged with sending misbranded food across the country, mail and wire fraud and conspiracy.

Peanut Corporation of America, based in Blakely, was a peanut roasting facility that processed the nuts to be sold around the United States.

In 2009, the Food and Drug Administration said the company shipped tainted products it knew tested positive for the bacteria-linked to a deadly nationwide outbreak of salmonella poisoning.

PCA has since gone out of business.
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