Feds indict 4 in peanut butter salmonella outbreak
An Early County, Ga. Sheriff's car sat parked in front of the Peanut Corporation of America processing plant in Blakely, Ga. on Jan. 29, 2009. A federal grand jury indicted four employees of a peanut company, on Wednesday linked, to a 2009 salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and sickened hundreds. The indictment was unsealed in federal court in Georgia and charges four employees with Virginia-based Peanut Corp. of America.