Also, from KOAA (source: NBC) -- "Warnings first went out earlier this week, when products from a peanut processing plant in Georgia were pulled from store shelves. Now the FDA has also found contamination at a plant in Virginia."
Posted on 01/17/2009 9:41:17 PM PST by lainie
(CNN) -- Federal officials are urging consumers to put off eating foods that contain peanut butter until they can be they are sure they do not contain products manufactured by the Peanut Corp. of America, some of which were found to contain salmonella.
A salmonella outbreak has sickened almost 500 people and killed at least six.
Food and Drug Administration officials said Saturday that peanut butter and peanut paste made from ground roasted peanuts, manufactured in Peanut Corp.'s Blakely, Georgia, plant were found to contain the bacteria, although a direct link to the strain that has now sickened 474 people in 43 states has not been found.
Six deaths may have been connected to this salmonella outbreak.
Peanut Corp. announced an expanded recall of peanut butter and peanut paste produced from its Georgia plant Friday night. Peanut Corp. doesn't directly supply to supermarkets, so brand-name peanut butters are not expected to be affected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Instead, Peanut Corp. sells produce in bulk. The peanut butter is sold by in containers from 5 to 1,700 pounds. Peanut paste is sold in sizes from 35-pound containers to tankers.
The peanut paste is used in the manufacturing of cakes, candies, crackers, cookies and ice cream, FDA officials say.
CDC map of outbreaks, broken down by state
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Also, from KOAA (source: NBC) -- "Warnings first went out earlier this week, when products from a peanut processing plant in Georgia were pulled from store shelves. Now the FDA has also found contamination at a plant in Virginia."
Sounds like it is shaping up like the tomato fiasco.
my thoughts, too.
You were one step ahead of the game, weren’t you?
Remember when the same thing happened to tomatos? The FDA nailed US tomato farmers - and it turned out to be Mexican peppers after all.
Remember the spinach scare - which they still “guess” was caused by feral pigs.
FDA likes to shoot first, and ask questions later.
California seems to have it’s share. Is this goober fat used in Food Banks give aways etc?
By 3 milliseconds...
Peanut Butter Ice Cream?????
Jimmy Carter is at fault! Let’s just Move-On.
wellll....... I mean, no love lost here for federal alphabet agencies or anything, but they do need to say something if there’s a verified salmonella outbreak related to a particular plant. What bothers me is that it’s growing and sounding more loose. Well that and we can’t believe anything the FDA says most of the time. Or the CDC for that matter.
Translation:
mo' money, mo' money..
[sing & dance it with me now]
Since the source has been immediately identified as domestic (i.e. not from Mexico or S-O-B), there is therefore no problem with immediate disclosure.
hm. prob’ly.
...When it’s time for me to die, salt free roasted peanuts and their empty shells will be found on my cold dead reclined on my couch remains...
Showed wife a list of the product recalls today. She likes the peanut butter/cracker thingies. That’s the last thing she needs is salmonella.
Kellogs, various styles branded Austin and Kebler were all recalled. I’ll see if I can find it.
Health officials in Minnesota and Virginia have linked two deaths each to the outbreak and Idaho has reported one. Four of those five were elderly people, and all had salmonella when they died, although their exact causes of death have not been determined. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the salmonella may have contributed.
An elderly North Carolina man died in November from the same strain of salmonella that's causing the outbreak, officials in that state said Friday.
The CDC said the bacteria behind the outbreak — typhimurium — is common and not an unusually dangerous strain but that the elderly or those with weakened immune systems are more at risk.
so...one death was from last November, and 4 of the 5 other deaths were elderly people, whose causes of death haven't been confirmed.
?
Um. I don't know!
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