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Summary
The outside of the Peanut Corporation of America processing plant, Blakely, Georgia, file photo 15 January, 2009.

U.S. officials discovered the Lynchburg, Virginia-based company had shipped products contaminated with salmonella bacteria 12 times in 2007 and 2008.

This plant was shut down and a majority of the plant's employees had been let go.

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