Peanut Corp and its tainted product
It was revealed yesterday that emails indicated the owner of Peanut Corp,, the company at the center of the salmonella outbreak involving peanuts, urged the sale of tainted paenut product because he was worried about losing money.
The owner of a peanut company urged his workers to ship tainted products after receiving test results identifying salmonella, imploring employees to "turn the raw peanuts on our floor into money," according to internal company e-mails disclosed Wednesday by a House committee.
The company e-mails obtained by the House panel showed that Peanut Corp. of America owner Stewart Parnell ordered the shipments tainted with the bacteria because he was worried about lost sales.
At one point, Parnell said his workers "desperately at least need to turn the raw peanuts on our floor into money" and at another point told his plant manager to "turn them loose" after learning some peanuts were contaminated with salmonella.
Putting product out in the marketplace that is known to be unsafe is unlawful. We see it time and time again in our prodcuts liability cases. Manufacturers choosing their bottom line over the safety of the consumers of their product.
