Pic above is panel of House members on subcomittee for peanut butter salmonella hearing; Rep. Bart Stupak, in center, is chair. Opening statements are read in to record, then multiple emails from Stewart Parnell, prez of Peanut Corporation of America are projected on video screens & read into record. In emails, Parnell begs FDA to allow him to stay in business even after positive salmonella results, and says he needs to make money from his peanuts.
Family members of poisoning victims speak...there's a general sense of moral outrage in room, and discussions of Parnell's "criminal mind."
Parnell shows up, pleads the fifth multiple times. He declines to eat any of the contaminated peanut butter products committee members have gathered. Parnell exits hearing room to screams of media in hallway.
Dr. Stephen Sundlof is now on witness stand...tune in later for full report...we're still tweeting in the sidebar.
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