Food Safety: Looking for Red Hands; Finding Red Flags

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Friday February 20, 2009 · 6:30 AM PST

2009/02/20 · 06:30

I'd hate to type "red flag" into Google News these days. Red flags on mortgage lenders. Red flags on Madoff. Red flags on banks. Red flags in peanut factories.

Better than seeing red flags would be catching folks red-handed. Here is a tale about why an FDA inspector might have a hard time.

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Tuesday February 17, 2009 · 12:23 PM PST

2009/02/17 · 12:23

One long month in the peanut butter business from an insider:

Last month I was trying to sell peanut butter at the San Francisco Fancy Food Show when people started showing up at my booth and asking me if my peanut butter contained salmonella. This was not a good way to find out about a recall. Since we do all of our own roasting from raw peanuts, I knew our peanut butter wasn't affected by the recall. So I wasn't terribly concerned.

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