 this is a bloomberg money minute pepsi's parent company may have a cleanliness problem the pepsico factory that sparked a huge recall for its quaker oaths brand came after regulators say pepsico let salmonella fester there for as long as four years quaker oats shut down the danville illinois plant back in april but the fda told the company in a warning letter just last month the closing might not be enough to stop the contamination from happening elsewhere