Dead Rodents Found At Peanut Plant

BREAKING NEWS

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas has ordered a recall of all products
ever shipped from a now-closed Peanut Corp. of America plant in
Plainview amid a nationwide salmonella outbreak.
The order came Thursday evening from the Department of State
Health Services. The agency says "dead rodents, rodent excrement
and bird feathers" were discovered Wednesday in a crawl space
above a production area.
A state inspection also found that the unit's air handling
system was pulling debris from the infested crawl space into
production areas.
The plant began operating in March 2005 but was shut down
earlier this week.
The health department order also requires the plant to stop
producing and distributing food products.

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