Well, certainly one of the most informative and elucidating events for the pest management industry the past six months has been the salmonellosis outbreak traced back to peanut-related products. Perhaps just this past February you read headlines likethis: "Dead Rodents Found in Peanut Plant." Texas health officials shuttered a peanut plant at the center of a national Salmonella outbreak and ordered it to recall all products ever shipped from the plant after inspectors found dead rodents, rodent feces and feathers in a ceiling crawlspace above a production area. Officials also found that an air-handling system was pulling debris from the crawlspace into areas where dry-roasted peanuts, peanut meal and granulated peanuts were processed. Preliminarytests by a private lab indicated Salmonella was present.
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