Factory Knowingly Sent Contaminated Peanut Butter, Officials Say

Your second statement is not true. No drug company or food manufacturer is required to submit results to the FDA. The manufacturers follow Good Manufacturing Practices, have STandard Operating Procedures, and so on and so forth. Manufacturers are required to perform various release testing of its products in distributes. When hey fail, they must investigate and have rationale for disposition of the batch of product if the investigation has proved the initial failing result. There are quality systems and various procedures which a company must have to delineate these things. They were not followed for the sake of pushing product out the door. The FDA performs Site Inspections on a regular basis and audits every facility to ensure it is in compliance with these Good Manufacturing Practices. This company was clearly not. But back to your original statement...requiring companies to submit every result of every test performed for every batch of product is not practical. The Agency expects the company to follow GMP and investigate internally and disposition product that is only fit for consumption by the consumer. The FDA did not fail, and is not culpable. The people at this plant, or it higher management, and the Quality Unit, are responsible for unethical behavior of putting profit above product and consumer safety.