The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing titled, "The Salmonella Outbreak: The Continued Failure to Protect the Food Supply" on Wednesday, February 11, 2009, in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing will examine the recent salmonella outbreak associated with peanut products manufactured by the Peanut Corporation of America.

A summary of the hearing with accompanying documents is available.

The following witnesses have been invited:

• Jeffrey Almer
• Lou Tousignant
• Peter K. Hurley
• Stewart Parnell, President, Peanut Corporation of America*
• Sammy Lightsey, Plant Manager, Peanut Corporation of America
• Stephen Sundlof, D.V.M., Ph.D., Director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration
• Oscar Garrison, Consumer Protection Division, Georgia Department of Agriculture
• Darlene Cowart, President, J. Leek Associates, Inc.
• Charles Deibel, President, Deibel Laboratories

* The Committee voted on February 10, 2009 to compel the testimony of Stewart Parnell.