47 California Businesses on Tainted-Spice List

By Niesha Lofing
More than three dozen Asian restaurants and eight supermarkets in the Sacramento region are now listed as customers of a Bay Area company under state and federal scrutiny after its spice products were linked to an outbreak of salmonella.
The list was released late Monday night by the state Department of Public Health, the same day investigators expanded the recall of U.F. Union International Food Co.'s spice products to include some of the company's Uncle Chen line of pepper products.
The company voluntarily recalled its Lian How brand peppers and other spices Saturday after health officials "isolated Salmonella from an open container of Lian How White Pepper, which was found at a restaurant where some outbreak victims ate," according to a statement on the company's Web site.
So far the salmonella outbreak has sickened 42 people in four states. Thirty-three cases have been reported in California. Locally, five cases were reported in Sacramento County and one case was reported in El Dorado County. Full Story Here

Dead mice found at salmonella U.S. peanut plant

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Dead mice and rodent droppings were found throughout a Texas plant run by a company whose peanut products caused one of the biggest food recalls in U.S. history, food inspectors reported on Tuesday.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspectors who for the first time visited the Plainview, Texas, food processing plant run by Peanut Corporation of America were clearly disgusted by what they found last month.
"Effective measures are not being taken to exclude pests from the processing areas and protect against the contamination of food on the premises by pests," the report reads.
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