From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

Spinach, lettuce, peppers, and peanut butter.

Food poisoning is no picnic.

I'm Sarah Terry sitting in for Warren Alley, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

It's the largest food recall in U.S. history.

More than 1,800 products containing peanuts have been pulled from grocery shelves.

A salmonella contamination in peanuts has been linked to nine deaths and more than 600 illnesses.

The outbreak is the latest in a long line of food scares.

Is the FDA doing enough to make sure food is safe?

How do laws affect what we eat?

Does the system itself need to be overhauled?

On reporter's notebook, trashed in space, when satellites collide,

who cleans up the mess? First, the news. Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW,

Santa Monica, and from the Public Radio International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford

Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation, and the Skoll Foundation, supporting social entrepreneurs around the world. Uncommon heroes dedicated to the common good. Learn more at Skoll.org. I'm Sarah Terry, sitting in for Warren Allney, back with To the Point from PRI. We'll be talking today about the contaminated peanuts that have been

linked to deaths and illnesses and landed owners of a peanut processing plant in front of a

House subcommittee. Since 2002, more than half a dozen bacteria-related food contaminations

have made headlines. How vulnerable is the nation's food supply? How rigorous are the standards for

protecting it? On reporter's notebook, space crash. When two satellites slammed into each other in

space this week, they sent hundreds of pieces of debris speeding right into the path of other

spacecraft and satellites. What's going on up there?

First, this news update. Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire dealt the Obama administration a blow on Thursday

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