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Deaths Linked to PCA Peanut Butter May Finally Be Talked About in Open Court

By Dan Flynn on July 1, 2015

ALBANY, GA—United States of America v. Stewart Parnell et al began 346 weeks ago when food safety cops on the beat first identified an unusual multistate cluster of Salmonella Typhimurium. It would become the…
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Letter From the Editor: Week Six of the PCA Trial

By Dan Flynn on September 7, 2014

This past Thursday, a juror in the criminal trial of three former Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) executives became ill about two hours into the court session. Judge W. Louis Sands opted to send the…
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Judge Must Decide: Does CDC Status Qualify Someone as an ‘Expert Witness’?

By Dan Flynn on September 3, 2014

A “Daubert” hearing for Dr. Ian Williams, chief of the Outbreak Response and Prevention Branch at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was held Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Albany, GA.
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Defense Attorneys for Former PCA Executives Allege Government Misconduct

By Dan Flynn on July 7, 2014

Defense attorneys in the criminal prosecution of former Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) executives are charging that the document dumps they’ve been receiving from prosecutors lately amount to government misconduct. With only one week to…
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Defense Again Raises Possibility of Separate Trials for Parnell Brothers

By Dan Flynn on June 20, 2014

In prosecuting the former executives of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), government attorneys are going for convictions that, for the first time, could put defendants in a foodborne illness case behind prison bars. Rarely do…
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CDC Update: 50 New Cases of Salmonella Heidelberg Linked to Foster Farms Chicken

By Lydia Zuraw on May 28, 2014

Another 50 illnesses from Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported in connection with chicken from Foster Farms. The outbreak may not be over yet, but the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sees the…
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