DALLAS (AP) — Texas health officials confirm salmonella was found in peanut meal at a Texas plant owned by the company at the center of the national salmonella outbreak.
Doug McBride, a spokesman for the Texas Department of State Health Services, said Wednesday that the salmonella found in a sample taken from the Peanut Corp. of America's Plainview plant Feb. 12 is the same strain as the nationwide outbreak.
That comes as federal officials have said that test results confirmed that peanut butter made from peanuts processed at the Texas plant also contains the same strain.
The plant had voluntarily closed Feb. 9 after a private lab sample showed likely salmonella contamination. Texas health officials later ordered a recall of products from Plainview.
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