“I never never thought that this bacteria would survive in the peanut butter type environment. What the heck is going on?”
This quotation appeared in the March 5, 2009 New York Times article, “Food Safety Problems Elude Private Inspectors,” which focused on the salmonella outbreak at the Peanut Corporation of America. The source of this quote obviously didn’t realize salmonella could survive in peanut butter and actually grow in a peanut butter processing plant.