Something’s rotten in the state of Georgia

And, it’s called a peanut butter processing plant.

Actually, though, the rottenness isn’t so much at Peanut Corp. of America, in some ways, as it is with our lackadaisical, underfunded, underenforced federal regulatory system.

How’s that?

Get this.

Peanut Corp. was under no obligation to tell the FDA it was making peanut butter at the Georgia plant, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.

So, the FDA would have no way of knowing it should be inspecting peanut butter at Peanut Corp. of America.

That said, didn’t the FDA have some idea it should look for some sort of peanut-based food at this plant? I guess not; that would explain why the FDA didn’t inspect it for seven years.