As part of their Christmas vacation, Justin and Jennifer Krieger took their children David and Alexandra to Colorado.

“We were so excited. This was our first family ski trip; David was finally old enough to go to ski school,” says Jennifer. But moments after they arrived, Jennifer says David got sick.

“After getting him signed up, he threw up. We said this isn’t good,” she recalls.

His condition quickly went downhill. Every two hours he was waking up with diarrhea. He ended up in the emergency room being treated for dehydration. They went back to the hotel that night, but it wasn’t over.

“The symptoms quickly got worse,” says David’s father Justin. David was screaming. He ended up back in the hospital for the rest of the vacation.

Test results showed the child had a life-threatening infection caused by the salmonella bacteria. Justin and Jennifer had no idea where it came from until they were on the trip home.

“We looked at the Blackberry. It spoke of a salmonella outbreak nationwide. We thought ‘this has to be something David ate,’” says the father.

David had eaten contaminated crackers and peanut butter from the Peanut Corporation of America plant in Georgia. He was one of 600 people nationwide who had gotten sick after eating the snacks. Eight people have died so far.

“My thoughts went from primary concern for my child’s health to anger,” Justin says.

There are now more than 1,800 product recalls including peanut butter crackers and many other snacks. A criminal investigation is being conducted by the FDA and the justice department.

“I would love to know when they made the decision to go ahead and ship the product,” says Jennifer.

The company has already closed a Georgia plant identified as the source of the outbreak. Tuesday, they suspended operations at its Plainview Texas plant.

A Congressional hearing on the product recall is scheduled for Wednesday.