PEANUT INDUSTRY BACK TO NORMAL: Health scare little harm to growers

摘要

PRODUCTION at the Peanut Company of Australia's (PCA) processing plant at Kingayoy in southern Queensland is returning to normal. This follows the contamination scare mid-way through last year that forced the company to review production-line procedures. It has not been an easy six months for the PCA, which handles 65% to 80% of the Australian peanut crop and is a key employer in the Kingaroy area. But the damage could have been far worse had the company not taken steps to find new markets, move into value-adding and build extra safeguards into the processing line.