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Private food auditors inspecting food plants

Massachusetts attorney Thomas M. Kiley, concentrates on legal issues regarding defective products.  According to a recent article in the New York Times, government officials are overwhelmed with inspecting the nation's food supply and are turning to private auditors to do the job.

    The article documents that it was a private auditor who missed the salmonella contamination at the Peanut Corporation of America plant in southwest Georgia.  Although the inspector gave the plant a superior rating, the plant shipped out contaminated peanut products for nine months, and those products sickened 22,500 people and killed nine.