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Massive Recall of Peanut Butter =(
Posted by riverstyxxx • 1/18/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: oh well
Stop eating those peanut butter cookies, guys. Looks like there's a recall around the corner. All peanut butter snacks are unsafe right now until they say when.
consumerist.com/5134038/as-salmonella-recall-expands-fda-warns-consumers-to...
"The FDA still hasn't tracked down all that yummy salmonella-contaminated peanut butter, and until they do, they want consumers to stop eating all "commercially-prepared or manufactured peanut butter-containing products and institutionally-served peanut butter." No, this doesn't mean the jar of Skippy on your shelf, but it does seem to cover cookies, cakes, and ice cream; pretty much any shrink-wrapped peanut butter snack.
The problem is that the affected products aren't sold in one or two pound jars that are sold in supermarkets. The contaminated peanut butter from the Peanut Corporation of America factory in Georgia was sold in bulk packages that weighed between five and 1700 pounds. Contaminated peanut paste was sold in sizes ranging from 35 pounds to whole tanker containers. That's a lot of contaminated peanut butter!
Until the FDA salmonella hunters can determine who got which tanker of what, they don't want anyone eating manufactured products with peanut butter. Sorry!"
User Comments
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Is that a drag, or what? -
I saw that in the paper today.
Although they are saying regular plain peanut butter in the jar is OK - it's paste that is sold in bulk to be an ingredient in other products that seem to be the danger.
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Yep. Just thought I'd post the official statement.
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Yes, thank you for doing that.
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So, the whole box of nutter butters I ate this weekend was a bad idea?-
Worse than my curdled milk experience, I'm afraid.
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There are no visible signs that nutter butter is bad.
Conversely, when milk chunks plop into your coffee, it's a dead giveaway. -
But I thought it was the added calcium that made those chunks!
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No, it's the vitamin D.
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Now chewable!
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When I was a teenager I worked as a cashier in a supermarket and some of my high school friends that worked there would go into the aisle open up the peanut butter jars, spit in them, cover them back up and put them back on the shelves.
This was way before they started to place tampering protection packaging on certain items, like yogurt,
ice cream and some peanut butter. I don't buy a thing without some security label on it, unless it fruits and I wash them down in hot water first before I attempt to eat them.-
That's nothing compared to the tylenol scare about 25 years ago. People were just straight up dying, tylenol doesn't even make capsules anymore because of it.
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Yup I remember the tylenol scare and also the razor blades in the apples.
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Have these outbreaks increased? Have we just become more aware, especially because of the internet? Is the news printing it more, since the Chinese problems started?
My hubby got salmonella from a cafeteria in Washington DC. Doctors have to report it to some official agency. Hubby got a phone call while in the hospital (3 wks there!) and they interviewed him. Ends up several people got sick from the same cafeteria that same day. But I never saw anything in the newspapers about it.-
We've had a lot of recalls here locally. Everything from spinach to packaged foods. Ecoli and the like.
Yuck.
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Anok...Yup and I buy packaged spinach and it always says it's prewashed but I always washed mine anyhow and people use to say to me, why wash it again if it already says it's washed.
I was like are you people crazy. -
I just stopped buying produce from the store altogether
grow your own! 
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im happy with my anzac bickies
no peanut butter in sight -
Good grief - I 'bout had a panic attack! I had just pulled the butter out of the frig to soften to make, none other than, peanut butter cookies. -
I don't get the whole peanut butter thing, I like peanuts and I like butter but together it just seems wrong to me.
And the American habit of mixing it with jam in a sandwich is just downright filthy.-
You liked it just fine when I spread it all over....
never mind. -
No, keep talking..
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I didn't like it, I was upset I thought it was a dirty protest.
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Don't listen to Anin, River. He liked it just fine. He even asked for marshmallow fluff!
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mmm, oh yeah, marshmallow and chocolate with bacon and a fried egg..Melted cheese, mayonnaise and whipped cream.
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There'll be no frying mister!
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It was frying River's menu that killed Elvis.
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