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Analysis showed that private laboratories could have been an outbreak of salmonella at a plant operated by a company that turns on an outbreak of contamination at the national level of peanut products, said Tuesday health officials Texas.

The Peanut Company of America Corp. on Monday, temporarily shut down its plant in Plainview, Texas, at the request of health officials after tests indicated "the possible presence of salmonella in some of its products, said in a statement the Department Texas Health.


Apparently none of the products processed at the plant in Texas and possibly contaminated reached the hands of consumers, officials said. The Texas plant produces peanut flour, peanut granules and dry roasted peanuts.

The company is in connection with an outbreak of salmonella that 600 people fell ill and could have caused at least eight deaths.


Also caused the withdrawal of the market for more than 1,800 products from peanuts. Peanut Corp. closed its plant last month in Blakely, Georgia, after he told federal investigators that she proceeded to the outbreak of salmonella.

Research conducted last week indicated that the plant in Plainview, which opened in March 2005 and managed by a subsidiary, Plainview Peanut Co., operated without consideration and without a license from the state health department until the parent company was investigated last month by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).


Doug McBride, spokesman for the Department of State Health Services Texas Peanut Corp. said it agreed to voluntarily shut down the plant while working with the state agency.

The closure happened in Texas the day after the FBI pave the Georgia plant and took boxes and other materials. Agents executed a warrant at the log and the Peanut Corp. headquarters in Lynchburg, Virginia, according to a legislative official familiar with the raids and who spoke on condition of anonymity save for not being authorized to speak publicly about the matter.