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The food industry’s private inspection system failed to catch filthy conditions at a peanut company blamed for a nationwide salmonella outbreak because the firm itself hired the inspectors, lawmakers said Thursday.
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Peanut Corporation of America’s president Stewart Parnell, arrives to United States Federal Court in Lynchburg, Virginia, Thursday, March 12 2009, for a creditors meeting with trustees for Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings.
