By Elizabeth Weise and Julie Schmit
USA Today.com

The nationwide salmonella outbreak tied to peanut butter and peanut products is hitting a little too close to home for President Obama. Speaking of his 7-year-old daughter…he said, “That’s what Sasha eats for lunch probably three times a week…I don’t want to have to worry about whether she’s going to get sick as a consequence to having her lunch.”

Obama promised a “complete review” of Food and Drug Administration operations. “I think that the FDA has not been able to catch some of these things as quickly as I expect them to.” Congress appears to agree. The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry will hold a hearing Thursday on food-safety oversight. The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on the salmonella outbreak next week.

The outbreak has sickened more than 550 people in 43 states and is linked to eight deaths. It comes from a single peanut processing plant in Blakely, Ga., owned by the Peanut Corp. of America in Lynchburg, Va. The FDA says the company shipped products to more than 2,100 customers nationwide…

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