Do you like peanut butter?
Most of us probably had peanut butter countless times – PB & J sandwiches, in shakes, M & Ms. It’s one of the tastiest food flavoring. Some will even call it a food staple. We eat peanut butter without thinking that one day, it might kill us. We trust in out food companies because generally, their business ethics dictate that they make sure their products are 100% safe.
So what exactly happened with the Peanut Corporation of America? Why did nine people have to die because of this travesty brought about by the greedy CEO who just didn’t care about poisoning his customers?
It first happened in 2008. Several buyers reported getting poisoned after eating peanut products. By the time the investigation was over, over 700 cases of salmonella poisoning. The CEO eventually received one of the harshest sentences in white-collar crime history.
Let’s learn more about this interesting case, now recognized as the most massive food contamination event in the United States. You will never look at peanut butter the same way.
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Episode Description:
The Peanut Corporation of America based in Lynchburg, Virginia shipped tainted peanut products even after management was told that some of the containers contained Salmonella.
CEO Stewart Parnell now spends his days in prison and will probably die there. What’s different about this case from other white-collar crimes is the punishment the perpetrator received. He didn’t just skate by after investigators discovered what he did.
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