A bankruptcy trustee says claims have been filed for 154 people who say they were sickened by a salmonella outbreak traced to a Virginia peanut company.

Richmond-based C.F. Sauer Co.‘s recall of some of its sauce mixes will not affect production or employment at its local plant, which makes the products, the company said. C.F. Sauer announced Tuesday that it was voluntarily recalling several of its sauce mixes sold in Virginia and 12 other states because they contain instant non-fat dry milk from a Minnesota-based supplier whose equipment was found to be contaminated with salmonella.

What it includes: The recall covers select code dates of brown gravy, brown gravy with mushrooms, brown gravy with onions, turkey gravy, pork gravy, country sausage gravy, country style gravy, Alfredo sauce mix, Cajun gumbo mix and Hollandaise sauce mix produced under the Sauer’s, Gold Medal and Piggly Wiggly labels.
  What to do: The company said the recalled packages can be returned to the store where they were purchased. Customers can contact the company at (800) 688-5676 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

It’s not up to FDA food safety director Stephen F. Sundlof to tell me whether we should reorganize the whole U.S. food and agriculture system. But his video—on the agency’s salmonella-and-peanuts Web site—does pose the right question: “Well, a lot of people are asking me lately, what’s safe to eat and what isn’t safe to eat?“

A nationwide recall of 2 million pounds of pistachios in the wake of a salmonella scare has increased calls for more stringent food testing laws.

A wildlife expert is urging Virginia residents to clean and sanitize their backyard feeders following a salmonella outbreak linked to a rise in songbird deaths in several states.

In another food scare sure to rattle consumers who watched the national salmonella outbreak in peanuts unfold, federal food officials are now warning people not to eat any food containing pistachios, which could carry contamination from the same bacteria.

A nationwide recall of food containing peanut products is having an effect on the Central Virginia Foodbank, but not in the way you might think. Many food pantries across the United States report having to toss thousands of pounds of food containing peanut products because of salmonella fears.

Peanut Corp. of America, the Lynchburg-based company at the center of a deadly nationwide salmonella outbreak, filed for bankruptcy today in federal court.  The filing means the 33-year-old company is going out of business and is selling its assets to pay its debts.

The president of Lynchburg-based Peanut Corp. of America, accused of knowingly distributing salmonella-tainted peanut products, cited the Fifth Amendment yesterday in refusing to answer questions of a congressional panel.

The owner of a peanut company refused to testify to Congress on Wednesday amid the disclosure that he urged his workers to ship bacteria-tainted products.

Lawmakers want to hear today from the president of a small, family-owned company blamed for the national salmonella outbreak.

The peanut company at the center of an investigation into a deadly national salmonella outbreak said Tuesday it has suspended operations at a second processing plant.

The Lynchburg-based peanut company at the heart of a nationwide salmonella outbreak was forced to recall its peanut butter once before—in 1990. But it has operated mostly out of the public spotlight in its three decades in business, according to public documents. The Peanut Corp. of America was incorporated in Texas in 1977 and has headquarters in a small office behind its president’s home in Lynchburg.

Laboratory tests found salmonella in this 5-pound container of King Nut peanut butter from a Minnesota nursing home. Two of the three deaths associated with a national salmonella outbreak occurred in Virginia, health officials confirmed yesterday. Two adults in Virginia had salmonella when they died, though it’s not clear that the illness is what killed them, said Michelle Peregoy, a spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of Health.