Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/concern-grows-over-deadly-outbreak-of-salmonella-poisoning Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Federal investigators uncovered new details this week about conditions at a Georgia food factory that produced salmonella-tainted peanut products, which have killed eight and sickened hundreds more. Elizabeth Weise of USA Today updates the story. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. MARGARET WARNER: Concern over the deadly nationwide outbreak of salmonella continues to grow. Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration expanded the recall of products from a Peanut Corporation of America plant in Georgia.It also said the company had knowingly shipped out products that had tested positive for salmonella.Today, the U.S. Army said it will remove some peanut butter items from its warehouses in Europe.The outbreak has killed at least eight and sickened another 500 people in 48 states and Canada.For more on this story, we turn to Elizabeth Weise of USA Today.And, Elizabeth, welcome. Tell us, first, how big is this recall now? What kinds of products? How many? ELIZABETH WEISE, USA Today: We are now probably at about the second-largest recall in U.S. history. It's a little unclear. There was a meat recall a couple of years back that was over 100 million pounds of meat. It's unclear how much of this product we've got out.But the FDA's list right now is over 400 items that potentially could include peanuts from the Peanut Corporation plant in Blakely, Georgia. So it's in — I saw vegan peanut cookies today that it was in. It's in a teriyaki chicken frozen dinner. It's in a lot of granola bars, diet bars, little cups of peanut butter, and you get a piece of celery to stick in it.And, of course, the biggest one is the peanut crackers. It seems that we had two large recalls of peanut crackers early on.