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Pritzker Olsen attorneys have appeared on CBS News, Fox news, and numerous local television stations throughout the country. They have recovered millions for victims of food poisoning outbreaks. To contact our law firm, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free) or submit our free consultation form.

AP: Peanut Plant in Texas Wasnt Licensed

State and federal health officials have been focused on the Blakely, Georgia, peanut processing plant of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) as the cause of a nationwide Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak that may have contributed to eight deaths and more than 100 hospitalizations.

Nothing has changed in that regard, but The Associated Press reported in a recent story that a PCA processing plant in Plainview, Texas, operated for four years without a state license and without government inspection.

According to the AP, PCA opened the peanut processing plant in March 2005. But the facility was never licensed with the Texas Department of Health Services and had never undergone a government inspection, the AP story said.

The investigation of PCA's Georgia plant led investigators to also check out the company's other facilities. That's when the problem in Plainview was discovered. When health officials investigated the plant last month, they found no Salmonella bacteria, the AP said.

Nationwide, the Salmonella peanut butter outbreak has sickened more than 550 people. Victims have begun filing lawsuits, including the heirs of Shirley Mae Almer, 72, of Perham, Minnesota.

Mrs. Almer died December 21 at a Brainerd area hospital with an infection of Salmonella that later was matched to the outbreak strain.

Pritzker Olsen is representing the heirs of Mrs. Almer in her Peanut Corporation of America lawsuit. The national food safety law firm, which is based in Minneapolis, also will file a wrongful death lawsuit for the family of Doris Flatgard, 87, who died in the Salmonella outbreak on January 4.

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Food Poisoning Lawyer Fred Pritzker has appeared on national television and has been quoted by national publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press and Lawyers USA. He has been named a "Super Lawyer" by Law and Politics magazine. He is also listed in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America. To contact Fred Pritzker about a food poisoning lawsuit or food safety advocacy, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free) or submit the firm's free consultation form.

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