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(AP) - Relatives of two Minnesotans who died in the
nationwide salmonella outbreak say they're appalled by what they're
hearing about a Georgia plant identified as the source.

      The Food and Drug Administration says managers at the Peanut
Corporation of America plant continued shipping product after at
least 12 internal tests for salmonella came back positive in the
past two years. 

The FDA says the company never cleaned production
lines, and it re-tested and shipped some product when the new tests
came back negative.


      Tammy Myran's 87-year-old mother, Doris Flatgard, died Jan. 4
after eating tainted peanut butter at a Brainerd assisted living
facility. Myran calls it "incomprehensible" that someone would
run a business that way.


      Jeff Almer's mother lived at the same facility and died after
eating tainted peanut butter. Alme says the conduct "seems
criminal."


      Peanut Corp. has said it believes the FDA's report has some
inaccuracies. The company didn't immediately return a phone call
from The Associated Press.

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