FEMA Does it Again!

As if the bungling of the Gulf States following Katrina, Rita, and the others wasn't bad enough FEMA topped themselves by delivering salmonella tainted (and recalled) peanut products to victims of the ice storms in Kentucky and Arkansas.
From Yahoo News:

According to an internal FEMA briefing document dated 8 a.m. Thursday, FEMA has delivered 959,000 meals to Kentucky in the aftermath of the ice storm, with 490,000 more on the way over the next few days. Arkansas received 468,864, and no more were expected. State emergency workers there identified four trailers containing the food kits but said the kits had not been distributed.

FEMA Acting Director Nancy Ward said during a visit to Kentucky Thursday that the agency learned about 10 days ago that some of its stockpile of meal kits included peanut butter affected by the recall. It sorted through national inventories and pulled out about 10,000 meals, she said.

The company that produced the food kits, Red Cloud Food Service Inc., had earlier identified 530,000 meals that needed to be recalled, according to a memo posted on FEMA's Web site. But Ward said the agency learned late Wednesday that "the footprint of (the) national recall got larger," affecting more meals that hadn't been included before.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday that FEMA was not told about this particular brand of peanut butter right away, though she did not specify what brand she was talking about.

"So we need to find out about that," she said.

She said FEMA was telling people to throw away the packets and the meals would be replaced by tomorrow. She did not know if the new batch would include peanut butter products.

Kentucky National Guard Col. Phil Miller said guardsmen there were posting fliers with pictures of the peanut butter packets at food distribution points. Soldiers carrying emergency food supplies in their vehicles also had the fliers to give to hungry people they encountered.

National Guard Chief Warrant Officer Connie Vick said emergency meals containing peanut butter had likely been distributed to nearly two dozen counties.

Another heckofajob FEMA. The stoopid, it burns.

More later.
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