GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga.,None — There are new, important developments in the investigation of a Gwinnett County sandwich factory after problems forced two recalls in four months.
Those recalls include the convenience store chain RaceTrac.
Channel 2 consumer investigator Jim Strickland has discovered those problems may stretch beyond the plant.
"The contamination of a food product is never good news for anyone," said Oscar Garrison, chief of the Department of Agriculture's Consumer Protection Division.
Garrison said RaceTrac's former supplier, Flying Food Group of Lawrenceville, had been clean for months prior to last week's recall of RaceTrac products.
A positive test for listeria prompted the recall and baffled inspectors.
"We were denoting no problems with the environment of the facility," Garrison said.
The company's own tests, conducted with the state, showed a string of 400 negative tests for listeria.
"That's what led us and the company to look at the ingredients that were being utilized," Garrison said.
New tests show contamination of supply ingredients that had been sealed and shipped from another facility.
The question: Does that mean plants other than Flying Food and stores other than RaceTrac got tainted ingredients?
"We've made the results that were found by the company available to USDA, so we're waiting to hear of any other products that may be implicated as they move forward in their investigation," Garrison said.
The plant remains shut down.
WSBTV
