Created: 3/10/2009 5:24:29 AM 
ATLANTA (AP) -- Spurred by a deadly salmonella outbreak that was traced to a Georgia plant, the Georgia House is scheduled to consider changes to the state's food safety guidelines. The chamber is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a plan that would require county health officials to report possible violations of safety rules to state and federal agencies. Supporters say it would relieve the burden on state health inspectors, who are stretched thin with staff vacancies. The Senate passed a separate measure last month to require food plants to report the results of tests that reveal contamination to state officials. The salmonella outbreak that was traced to the Peanut Corp. of America plant in Blakely, Ga. has sickened hundreds and may have caused the deaths of at least nine.
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