There are reports that even after 12 internal tests came out positive for salmonella the machines handling these tainted nuts at the Peanut Corp. of Georgia were never cleaned. The company would just keep sending out samples from the same batches until they got clean results from an outside lab, then they would send out the product. Remember I explained in an earlier post it’s possible for a small sample to test positive and another small sample from another area in the same batch to come out negative. Just don’t mix them well, even though you know after the testing they will get mixed and probably pick up the bacteria.
How the Tainted Nuts Went Out