Investigators are now looking at a Virginia plant owned by the same company responsible for a nationwide outbreak of salmonella in peanuts and peanut products.

Two plants run by Peanut Corp., one in Georgia and one in Texas, have already been closed down. Now inspectors are looking at a third plant in Suffolk, Va., that is owned by the same company.

As recently as October, a Virginia inspector found “an accumulation of black, green and yellow mold” on blanched peanuts and 43 containers each holding 2,000-pounds of peanuts, according to The Associated Press. The plant manager told the inspector after the discovery that those peanuts would be destroyed if not used for animal feed and oil stock.

Peanut Corp. has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and federal authorities have launched a criminal investigation into allegations the company knowingly shipped tainted food. Peanut Corp. also faces a growing number of federal lawsuits seeking millions of dollars of damages from victims of the outbreak.

The “Food and Drug Administration”:http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm has a database of more than 2,600 foods that might contain peanut butter or peanut paste linked to the outbreak that were manufactured by Peanut Corp.