Monday, January 19, 2009

LATEST UPDATE: FDA confirms salmonella in Kellogg Peanut Butter Snacks!

Watch out for peanut butter!

What began as an investigation of bulk peanut butter shipped to nursing homes and institutional cafeterias has broadened with the Kellogg Co. recalling 16 products and federal officials confirming salmonella contamination at a Georgia facility that ships peanut products to 85 food companies.

There's a reported 474 people sick from peanut butter products, and six deaths attributed to the outbreak.

The new recalls, including one from General Mills (GIS) for Lärabar and JamFrakas snack bars, means that about a dozen companies have pulled products, including cookies, crackers and ice cream. Products were sold in stores such as Wal-Mart and Food Lion.

Kroger said Monday that it is recalling Private Selection Peanut Butter Passion Ice Cream sold in select stores because the peanut butter in the ice cream was supplied by Peanut Corporation of America and may be contaminated with Salmonella. Stores under the following names are included in this recall: City Market, Fred Meyer, Fry's, King Soopers, QFC and Smith's.

More recalls are likely, given that the Peanut Corporation of America, which earlier recalled the suspect peanut butter and peanut paste, supplied 23 other companies with product that's been recalled. PCA first recalled peanut butter last Tuesday, then Sunday added its peanut paste, an ingredient used by food manufacturer

Photo on right is the American Peanut Butter plant.

To see what products are being recalled click here

AP photo

2 comments:

Kym said...

I think the link is broken. I was thinking about making my peanutbutter choc. chip cookies for the potluck today. I think I'll switch to fudge brownies!

ImBlogCrazy said...

Egads! The link most have had contaminated peanut butter!
I don't know what happened...
hmmmmmm....

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