Three people charged in a deadly salmonella outbreak traced to a southwest Georgia peanut plant five years ago will go on trial two weeks later than initially planned, a judge decided Friday.

The decision was a last-minute break for former Peanut Company of America owner Stewart Parnell; his brother and food broker, Michael Parnell; and the peanut plant’s quality control manager, Mary Wilkerson. Jury selection in their trial had been scheduled to start Monday in U.S. District Court in Albany.

Judge W. Louis Sands postponed the trial until July 28. Defense attorneys argued they needed more time to review thousands of pages of evidence they had received from prosecutors since late June.

The judge’s written order wasn’t immediately available Friday evening. Thomas Bondurant, one of Stewart Parnell’s attorneys, and a U.S. attorney’s spokeswoman, Pam Lightsey, both confirmed the judge’s decision.

In 2009, authorities traced salmonella that killed nine people and sickened more than 700 to Peanut Corporation’s plant in Blakely, Georgia. The outbreak prompted one of the largest food recalls in history. The dead were from Minnesota, Ohio, Virginia, Idaho and North Carolina.