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Peanut boss refuses to testify at salmonella hearing (Source: USA Today)**__

The head of the company linked to a massive salmonella outbreak in peanut products refused to testify at a Congressional hearing Wednesday as lawmakers accused him of caring more about profits than food safety. Peanut Corporation of America President Stewart Parnell invoked his fifth amendment right not to testify, as did the plant manager at the Blakely, Ga., plant implicated in the outbreak, during the hearing before a House subcommittee. Both men also refused to eat recalled products that one lawmaker offered to them from a jar.[|...read more]

**__Sandusky firm recalls ice cream because of salmonella concern (Source: Toledoblade.com)__**

SANDUSKY — Toft’s Dairy is recalling half-gallon cartons of its Tin Roof Sundae ice cream that have an expiration date of Jan. 6, 2010 because they may have nuts from Peanut Corp. of America, the company blamed for a nationwide outbreak of salmonella-related illnesses. Chuck Meisler, Toft’s co-owner and secretary-treasurer, said the 109-year-old Sandusky ice cream company never purchased products directly from now-closed Peanut Corp. of America’s plant in Blakely, Ga., the center of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s national probe. [|...read more]

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The number of deaths linked to the nationwide salmonella outbreak rose to nine Wednesday when Ohio health officials announced that an elderly woman who died earlier this year had been infected with the strain involved. The woman was from Medina County, south of Cleveland. Kristopher Weiss, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Health, said he could not release any other details on her death, citing federal reporting rules.[|...read more]
 * __Ohio reports new death linked to salmonella strain (Source: Yahoo News)__**


 * __Salmonella found at Ga. plant as far back as 2006 (Source: Yahoo News)__**

WASHINGTON – A peanut company blamed for a salmonella outbreak discovered the dangerous bacteria at its Georgia plant as far back as 2006. [|...read more]


 * __7 Salmonella Cases Confirmed in Mississippi Source: Myeyewitnessnews.com)__**

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi has seven confirmed cases of the same salmonella strain that has sickened some 600 people and is being linked to nine deaths nationwide. [|..read more]