Christopher Meunier, 7, hadn’t felt very ill since he was very young, but in late November, he suddenly had a high fever and bloody diarrhea and started throwing up.
He was just in extreme pain, said his mother, Gabrielle Meunier of South Burlington, Vt. He said, ‘It hurts so bad, I want to die’ something you don’t expect to hear out of a 7-year-old’s mouth.
In the hospital for 6 days, Christopher had salmonella sickness, making him one of more than 500 people struck by the poison across the country after eating peanut butter or peanut products made at a P.C.A. or Peanut Corporation of America plant in Blakely, Ga.
The F.D.A. has charged that the company knowingly delivered poisoned products to some of the most enormous food makers in the country from a plant that was never designed to make peanut butter safely, causing one of the biggest food recalls in history. The company responded that it disagreed with some of the agency’s findings and that it had taken extraordinary measures to identify and recall all products that have been identified as presenting a potential risk.
Food scares have become as common as Midwestern tornadoes. Cantaloupes, jalape
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