Posted on 02/06/2009 3:50:39 PM PST by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2009 – Though some of them contain peanut butter, the 660,000 packaged military meals the Defense Logistics Agency and Federal Emergency Management Agency are shipping to Kentucky and Arkansas storm victims are safe, officials here said.
The meals -- known as “Meals, Ready to Eat,” or “MREs” -- will replace the commercial meal kits that have been distributed to the storm victims.
DLA’s Defense Distribution Center in New Cumberland, Pa., is arranging shipment of the meals, scheduled for delivery today.
A recent Food and Drug Administration recall of some products containing peanut butter has prompted the Defense Logistics Agency and its industry partners to increase surveillance of the peanut butter suppliers to ensure the products are safe to consume, DLA officials said in a statement released today.
“All military MREs are safe,” the statement said. “While many of the meals contain peanut butter, they do not contain peanut butter products recalled by the Food and Drug Administration, according to the manufacturers of the MREs.”
In addition, 1.5 million self-contained packaged meals, a commercial version of the military MREs, are being readied for distribution to FEMA. Although some of these meals also contain peanut butter, officials said, the manufacturers have certified that the meals do not contain products recalled by the FDA.
Many residents of Kentucky and Arkansas have been without power for prolonged periods since a late-January storm.
Of course they are, they were manufactured 10 years before the recall.
Of course they are, they were manufactured 10 years before the recall.
Only 10?
Sure if they were 20 years old, they’d be C rats.
I thought the MRE’s that we had in Iraq were a vast improvement over the older ones. There was a chemical heater so at least you did not have to heat them on the horizontal stabilizer or engine of your Huey.
The uncle of a friend of mine still swears that during World War II, some of the guys in his unit tried to ‘blue flame’ some heat into some K-rations, personally I don’t believe it.
Peanut butter- the best thing for heating C-rats.
or for the runs. that stuff would plug me up for weeks if i ate it.
A case of 12 MRE sell in the military commisary for 86.98 per case - for 12 meals.
$7 a meal. And better for than MikyDs....
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