You Got Your Salmonella In My Peanut Butter: Product Recall Spreads (No Pun Intended)
Why do they always have to mess with peanut butter? I mean, it's like nature's most perfectest food. You can eat it with jelly, jam, honey, apples, bananas, celery, on bread, on toast, on crackers, with chocolate, baked into cakes, shaped into cookies, molded into ice cream, spun into shakes, with more peanut butter.
Well, my favorite snack is under attack again, as the product recall around the tasty treat has grown:
The Food and Drug Administration is investigating a salmonella outbreak infecting hundreds of people in 43 states including Indiana. So far, six people have died and more than 500 have become ill.
The focus is on Peanut Corporation of America based in Georgia. But there's no way for consumers to know where their peanut butter came from.
"First I'd want to check what the FDA is saying. If they said to remove certainly I'd want to remove them," said Chris Baker, consumer.
The FDA is advising consumers to stop eating products with peanut butter in them. Companies are following the FDA's lead. Indiana-based South Bend Chocolate Company voluntarily recalled five different varieties of candies and fudge. At Meijer, peanut butter crackers and ice cream are now off the shelves and Wal-Mart is voluntarily recalling suspected products as well.
"We threw away some Keebler and Austin brand crackers," said Brad Wombles.
Shoppers are finding empty spots where recalled peanut butter crackers once filled the shelves. Elsewhere, safety warnings are posted for the crackers and cheese crackers are stocked in their place.
Meantime, the peanut butter problem comes as the Girl Scout cookie drive is in full swing. But good news from the organization: the Do-Si-Do's and Tagalongs are still safe to order.
"Our cookies will be delivered in three weeks. We're still in process so they were able to check all of that and do that background check and issue a statement to us that our cookies are fine," said Deborah Hearn Smith, Girl Scouts of Central Indiana.
The websites for brands like Jif, and Peter Pan also say they're okay to eat.
In all seriousness...it seems that the peanut butter you buy in the jar isn't affected, it's the PB in foods like sandwich crackers and candy:
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