Microbiologist Took the Stand Against Peanut Company of America

A microbiologist with the Food and Drug Administration took the stand yesterday, in the trial of former Peanut Company of America owner Stewart Parnell of Forest and two others. The F-D-A scientist testified that two of 92 environmental swabs done at the company’s Georgia plant tested positive for salmonella. The company is linked to a salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and sickened hundreds more.