Interactive: A look at peanut-borne salmonella and other food scares

Published 4:00 pm Monday, February 9, 2009

WASHINGTON _ A century ago, at the dawn of food safety laws, inspection amounted to little more than opening a bin of flour and looking for something wiggly. It’s a different story now. Solving the case of the poison processed peanuts took marathon work by federal scientists, clues in Canada, Oregon, Ohio and Connecticut, and a breakthrough in Minnesota at the hands of public health hotshots.

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