Bad peanuts found before outbreak

Amazing - well, perhaps not. The FDA is completely screwed up. Gee, let's give them more money and hire more FDA employees so they can ignore more information.

""filthy, putrid or decomposed substance" later identified as metal fragments." Gosh, THATs why my car smells so bad! So, the FDA inspector thinks that metal fragments can be "putrid or decomposed"? No wonder superiors ignored the report!

""filthy, putrid or decomposed substance" later identified as metal fragments."

With my peanut allergy at infancy, since 1966, I've described peanut butter on peoples breath --from across a room-- as smelling like rotten compost.

"Filthy, putrid, decomposition of metal fragments" is an accurate description of that smell. Perhaps, the reporter has similar allergy sensitivity, and/or perhaps US peanut processing methods --mold & cockroach infested-- hasn't changed in over 43 years.

My daughter suffers similar peanut sensitivity. Oddly, our reaction only occurs with US brands; mostly with unknown peanut traces in unrelated foods, later found to be processed in a peanut facility, or on the same equipment as other peanut foods.

Accidentally ingesting foreign peanuts, pistachios, or cashews at authentic Indian food restaurants passes right trough us with no problems.

Since, our peanut detection intensifies when peanuts are heated or cooked, I always though it was the mass storage of peanuts in US silos that caused extra pressure and heat to accelerate a natural bacteria growth.

Not sure what's going on between US and foreign peanuts, but not surprised if high-pressure storage, contaminants such as metals, minerals, molds, vermin, or regulatory inspection proved a major variable between countries.